Lights at Night 6-pack Author: Anne Juddery ISBN: 9780478121902 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Phonemic awareness, Phonics Genre: Report Theme/Topic: Science and Technology Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Clear photographs draw children’s attention to the variety and necessity of “night light.”

Features of the Book

• Consistent placement of text.
• Every sentence begins with the same word.
• The “sh” blend – “shop.”
• The high-frequency words – “on,” “in,” “the,” and “a.”
• The change from “on” to “in” on page 4.
• The rhyme – “shop” and “stop.”
• The “Light” and “night” rhyme with a single consonant change.
• The challenge of two lines of text on page 8.

Purpose

Lights at Night can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:

• hearing and recording the sounds in words sequentially
• recognizing rhyming words
• rereading the text at difficulty and searching for meaning
• practicing writing using rhyme and rhythm

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