Let's Build a Bike 6-pack Author: Ravi Green ISBN: 9780790327105 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: K Strategy/Skill: Forming and testing hypotheses about text, Main ideas, Summarizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Forces and motion, Science and Technology Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

Machines have different parts that work together.  This text looks closely at the parts of a bike and explains how they make the bike move.  (Big idea: Scientists study how things move and work.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• forming and testing hypotheses about texts
• identifying the main ideas
• summarizing the main ideas

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using close-up photographs
• reading diagrams to understand how things work
• using a glossary (boldface type)

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (machines), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Being a Scientist
  • preview question on the back cover
  • headings
  • close-up photographs and visual features that highlight the bike parts (blue highlight, arrows, labels)
  • captions
  • pedal and brake diagrams
  • contents page, glossary (boldface type) and index
• Word study:
  • prefixes – “bi-,” “tri-,” “uni-”
  • digraphs – “th,” “wh,” “ch”
  • vowel combinations – too, smoothly, wheels, steep, squeezing, treads, road
  • contractions – it’s, let’s, there’s, won’t, you’ll, you’re
  • prepositions – around, on, onto, over, to, without

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