Max Comes Home 6-pack Author: Susan Paris ISBN: 9780478123395 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: A, B Strategy/Skill: Grammar and conventions, Phonemic awareness, Sequencing, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Family, Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Each member of the family arrives home from various places.  Grandma was walking Max the dog, but where is he?

Building Basic Skills

• High-frequency words – Comes, comes
• Content words – Max, Home, home, Mom, Dad, Baby, Anna, Ben, Grandpa, Grandma
• Repeated phrase – comes home
• Phonics and phonemic awareness – B (Baby, Ben), b (baby), A (Anna), a (Anna, Max, Dad, Grandpa, Grandma)
• Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation point

Skills and Strategies

Max Comes Home can be used to introduce and reinforce:

• retelling the sequence of the story using own words
• reading a variety of simple high-frequency words in context
• pointing one-to-one at each word to ensure an appropriate match
• writing using the conventions of capital letters and periods

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 92, cut and ready for use
• copies of BLM, pencil, markers
• cereal boxes, paper, scissors
• play dough

For more information please see our Lesson Plan