Lios de mascotas 6-pack Author: Marie Langley ISBN: 9780790328775 Copyright Date: 2007 Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: H

Overview

This book describes the effect of the wind on bubbles blown by a child.  Zany illustrations emphasize the humor in the story and encourage discussion.

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of using prior knowledge, making and confirming predictions, inferring, and evaluating.  It provides opportunities for recognizing high-frequency words and for practicing directionality and one-to-one word matching.  The repetition and close picture-text match provides support for new readers.

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

• the high-frequency words – my, on, the, they, to, up
• the repeated initial consonant -b – birds, blew, bubbles; -d – dog, down
• the upper-case and lower-case forms of t, b, p
• the “o” sound in over
• the use of repetition for effect
• the irregular verb – blew
• the use of onomatopoeia – pop!
• the use of an exclamation mark for emphasis
• the humorous ending
• the unusual style of the illustrations

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.