Let's Go Swimming 6-pack Author: Dot Meharry ISBN: 9780790320403 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Making predictions Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

On a hot day, a family goes swimming, but they visit a variety of places before they decide on one that suits them all.

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension skills of making connections with real-life experiences and making and confirming predictions. A repetitive text structure provides support, allowing the students an understanding of speech and expressive phrases.

Text features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

•  the high-frequency words – can, go, like, said, we, went
•  the repeated initial consonants – w, m, d
•  the contraction – we’ll
•  the adverb – too
•  the opposites – hot, cool
•  the use of direct speech
•  the family members’ feelings expressed clearly through the illustrations
•  the relationship between the text and illustrations (finding cues for unfamiliar words)

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