Lonely Bull, The 6-pack Author: Piatarihi Yates ISBN: 9780478121148 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: E Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Information skills, Making predictions, Summarizing Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Relationships Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Book Summary

Bull thinks nobody wants to be his friend, but it’s just that all the other farm animals are scared of him!

Features of the Book

• The strong element of repetition for reader support.
• The frequent use of the blends – “sh” and “fr.”
• The paper collage medium used by the artist.
• Illustrations that span two pages.
• The frequency of direct quotes and the question mark.
• The capital letter that begins each animal’s name.
• The high-frequency words – “was,” “will,” “you,” “came,” and “your.”

Purpose

The Lonely Bull can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:

• using structural cues to monitor that reading is making sense
• predicting outcomes from illustrations
• summarizing the main parts of the story
• selecting information from the story for a specific purpose

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