Mapping It 6-pack Author: Bronwen Wall ISBN: 9780790327242 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: L Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making connections Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Place and regions, Science and Technology Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

This book explores a variety of maps – including mall maps, online maps, and GPS – and how they help people find their way.  (Big idea: People need help to find their way around).

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• identifying the main ideas

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using maps to get information
• using captions and visuals to expand on
• information in the text
• using close-up visuals
• using a contents page, glossary (boldface type) and index

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (maps), which expands on pages 10 and 11 of the anchor book Discovering My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • maps
  • captions
  • close-up visuals
  • contents page, glossary (boldface type), and index
• Word study:
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “sh,” “wh”
  • medial vowels – route
  • plural endings – roads, buildings, rivers, parks, places, things, maps, cities, oceans, rocks, islands, sailors, buses, trains, malls, stores, directions, cars, landmarks
  • contractions – didn’t, I’m, let’s, don’t
  • silent letters – know, islands, palm
  • compound words – sometimes, online, anything, inside, toward, landmark
  • words ending in “y” – city, way, key
• Exclamation points
• Descriptive language (similes) – The city looks like a map from up there
• Speech marks and dialogue
• Acronym – GPS
• Humor – don’t forget the map!

For more information please see our Lesson Plan