Let's Clean Up 6-pack Author: Dylan Byrd ISBN: 9780790327266 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: A Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Visualizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Environment, Neighborhood, Personal environments, School and Community Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

In this book, children are cleaning up at home and in their community.  Clear photographs and a simple narrative reinforce the message that everybody can help to keep our environment clean. (Big idea: People need to keep planet Earth clean.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

•  making and confirming predictions
•  visualizing

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• using photos to get information.

Features of the text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • topic (keeping Earth clean), which expands on pages 12 and 13 of the anchor book Helping Planet
    Earth
  • preview question on the back cover
  • photographs that support text

• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “cl-,” “st-”
  • final consonant blend – “-lp”
  • digraph sounds – “ch”
  • compound word – everyone

• Exclamation point
• Short repetitive sentences

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.