Lunchtime at the Zoo 6-pack Author: Paula Slack ISBN: 9780478264470 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Information skills, Text structure, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Food, Leisure and Recreation Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

A boy and his mother visit the zoo with a picnic lunch for both themselves and the animals.  However, they are not allowed to
feed the animals.

Word Study

• High-frequency words: No, at, said, the
• Punctuation: periods, exclamation point, commas, quotation marks, capital letters
• Phonics and phonemic awareness:
  • – Z, z – Zoo, zebras, zookeeper
  • – L, l – Lunchtime, lions
  • – plurals – bears, elephants, giraffes, lions, monkeys, parrots, zebras
  • – compound words – zookeeper, lunchtime

Skills and Strategies

Reading Lunchtime at the Zoo will reinforce the following objectives and give the children the opportunity to:

• discuss new words contained within the story
• emphasize left-to-right movement to reinforce directionality
• locate information
• select information from the story for a specific purpose

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 127
• copies of BLM, markers, pencils
• plastic zoo animals, picnic basket, food, paper

For more information please see our Lesson Plan