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Picnic, The
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478123524
Grade Level:
K
Reading Level:
A, B
Strategy/Skill:
Making connections, Making predictions, Prior knowledge
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Theme/Topic:
Family, Food
Classification:
Fiction
Fluency:
Emergent
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Book Summary
Mom and the children are distracted from their picnic by farm animals. The birds take advantage of the situation and steal the picnic.
Building Basic Skills
- High-frequency words – The, Look, at, the, said
- Content words – Picnic, cow, sheep, goat, hen, horse, goose, turkey, picnic
- Repeated phrase – “Look at the …,” said Mom
- Phonics and phonemic awareness – h (hen, horse), g (goat, goose)
- Punctuation – quotation marks, commas, periods, capital letters, exclamation point
- Special Feature – Story line told in the illustrations
Skills and Strategies
The Picnic can be used to introduce and reinforce:
- predicting the story line using illustrations from the book
- reading a variety of simple high-frequency words in context
- innovating on the story to create own versions of stories, plays, and songs
- identifying onset and rime within words
Materials
- copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 96, cut and ready for use
- copies of BLM, pencil, markers
- rug, snack
- magnetic letters
- paper, markers
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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