Play, The 6-pack Author: Karen Anderson ISBN: 9780478123494 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: A, B Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Making connections, Phonemic awareness, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Art and Activity Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Children take different parts in a school play.

Building Basic Skills

• High-frequency words – The, We, were, the, in, a
• Content words – Play, trees, clouds, rats, hens, farmers, dogs, kids, play
• Repeated phrase – We were the
• Phonics and phonemic awareness – W (We), w (were); plural “s” on nouns
• Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation point

Skills and Strategies

The Play can be used to introduce and reinforce:

• monitoring reading and ensuring that it is making sense using meaning, structural, and visual information from the story
• reading a variety of simple high-frequency words in context
• sharing own experiences related to the content of the story
• writing new words independently by hearing and recording the sounds in sequence

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 97, cut and ready for use
• copies of BLM, markers, pencil
• masks (these can be quickly made with a paper plate and string)
• questions chart
• developmental art materials
• white glue, string, crayons

For more information please see our Lesson Plan