Picnic, The 6-pack Author: Karen Anderson ISBN: 9780790320151 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Phonemic awareness, Using texts as models for own writing, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Food Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This story describes how Mom and two children prepare for a picnic.  A closer reading of the story reveals that the children and Mom have quite different ideas about the best kinds of food to pack! 

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of:

• using prior knowledge
• making and confirming predictions
• using illustrations to understand text
• making connections to real-life experiences, and inferring.

It provides opportunities for recognizing high-frequency words and for practicing directionality and one-to-one word matching.

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

•  the high-frequency words – in, the, we
•  the use of the pronoun “we” to refer to the two children
•  the repetitive sentence structure
•  the plural nouns – apples, cookies, picnics, sandwiches
•  the shift of focus from Mom to the children on alternate pages
•  the contrast between the food choices of Mom and the children
•  the use of an exclamation mark for emphasis on page 8
•  the visual subplot featuring the family cat and dog who appear on most pages
•  the quirky style of the illustrations

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.