New Girl, The 6-pack Author: Janice Marriott ISBN: 9780478186000 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: L Strategy/Skill: Character study, Comprehension strategies, Making predictions, Phonics, Vocabulary and word study Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Personal Change, Relationships, School and Community Classification: Fiction

Book Summary

Amy is at home with a broken ankle.  While she is away, her best friend, Kim, makes friends with a new girl.  Amy finds this unsettling, then she finds out that she and the new girl have something in common.

Features of the Book

• Direct speech
• Written from a child’s point of view
• Specialized vocabulary – cast, crutches, hobbled 
• Third-person narrative

Word Study Opportunities

• Double consonants – stopped, worried, hobbled
• Contractions – wasn’t, didn’t, she’s, how’s, couldn’t, can’t
• Silent “w” – write, wrong, wrote
• Compound words – classroom, everyone, anymore, outside, lunchtime

Purpose

The New Girl can be used to introduce and reinforce the following standards-related skills:

• interpreting and analyzing characters’ feelings, relationships, and actions
• making, confirming, and revising predictions
• using context clues and prior knowledge to understand unfamiliar words
• exploring problem resolution
• recognizing the silent letter “w”
• writing compositions that have interesting subjects

For more information please see our Lesson Plan