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Playhouse, The
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478120714
Grade Level:
2
Reading Level:
K
Strategy/Skill:
Cause and effect, Text structure
Genre:
General Narrative
Theme/Topic:
Exploration, Family, History
Classification:
Fiction
Fluency:
Early-Fluent
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Book Summary
This book explores how the past can be pieced together from artifacts and oral history.
Features of the Book
- The clear beginning, middle, and end of the story.
- Illustrations that support the text and provide additional information.
- The use of descriptive narrative in the first person.
- The use of past and present tense.
- The use of a historical perspective on pages 8 and 9.
- The use of sepia tones in the illustration on page 8 to indicate a scene from the past.
- The range of prepositions – “in,” “by,” “on,” “beside,” “from,” “after,” “next to,” and "under.”
- The compound word “playhouse.”
- The concept of “pretending.”
Purpose
The Playhouse can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:
- discussing the organizational structure of the text
- discussing the relationship between cause and effect within the story
- developing the ability to write specifically about the detail of the setting of the story
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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