Mi oso favoríto 6-pack Author: Dot Meharry ISBN: 9780790328836 Copyright Date: 2007

Overview

A boy shows the reader his collection of bears, then snuggles into bed with his “best” bear.

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of connecting with real-life experiences, using illustrations to understand text, forming and testing hypotheses, and inferring.  It provides opportunities for practicing one-to-one word matching, directionality, and recognizing high-frequency words.  The illustrations provide opportunities for developing students’ oral language.

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

•  the high-frequency words – but, is, my, this
•  the repeated initial consonant -b – bear, best, big, blue, but
•  the upper-case and lower-case forms of initial letters – bear, Bear, best, Best; my, My; this, This
•  the digraph -th – this
•  the high proportion of single-syllable words (which supports one-to-one matching)
•  the opposites – big and little, old and new
•  the adjectives used to describe the bears
•  the title as a support for reading the last page
•  the exclamation mark for emphasis on page 8
•  the child’s evaluation of the bears suggested by the word “best”
• • the extra information provided in the illustrations

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.