Old Tuatara 6-pack Author: Joy Cowley ISBN: 9780478121964 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Fluency, Information skills, Making predictions, Vocabulary and word study Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Habitats Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Wily Old Tuatara basks all day in the sun, fooling almost everyone that he is sound asleep.

Features of the Book

• The word “Tuatara.”
• The repetitive text and close picture/text match.
• Consistent position of text and illustrations.
• Direct speech and quotation marks.
• The sound of the letter “s” in “sat,” “sun,” and “said.”
• The high-frequency words – “and,” “in” “said,” and “the.”
• Well-known author.

Purpose

Old Tuatara can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:

• reading a range of simple, high-frequency words in context
• encouraging reading using expression to increase understanding
• predicting the story line using illustrations from the book
• collecting information relating to the story to share with others

For more information please see our Lesson Plan