My World From Above 6-pack Author: Zac Summers ISBN: 9780790327488 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: H Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Main ideas, Asking questions Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: The world, Personal environments, Neighborhood, Environment Classification: Nonfiction

Overview

In this book, a boy describes his neighborhood, city, county, state, and country. Simple maps depict his home from each perspective. (Big idea: People need help to find their way from one place to another.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

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

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• reading maps
• using a glossary (boldface type)
• captions that describe locations
• labels and arrows to show locations

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (finding your way), which expands on pages 10 and 11 of the anchor book
    Discovering My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • maps with and without keys
  • captions, labels, and arrows to show and describe
  • locations
  • glossary
• Word study:
  • some repetitive simple sentence structure
  • initial consonant blends – “pl-,” “fr-,” “str-,” “sk-”
  • contractions – it’s, they’re
• Exclamation point for emphasis on pages, 8 and 14
• Question mark on page 6 and the back cover

For more information please see our Lesson Plan