¿Quién vive en tu casa? 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780176360214 Copyright Date: 2003 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 3 Reading Level: Q Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Summarizing Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family, Food Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

If your house is warm and dry you could have all kinds of creatures as “house guests.”  In this book, entomologist Bruce Chapman explains about some of these unwelcome creatures and why they like to come and live with humans.

Features of the Book

• The regular structure of each chapter
• The introduction and poem
• Specialized vocabulary – pupa, abdomen, mudar, plaga, sabandija, antena, garra, ninfa
• Life cycle diagrams
• Labeled diagrams of the creatures
• Photographs with captions
• Detailed, freeze-frame photographs
• Background images that support the theme

Purpose

¿Quién vive en tu casa? can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:

• recognizing and using different parts of a book to locate information
• understanding and using a glossary
• interpreting and using graphic information in a text; for example, life cycles
• summarizing and presenting information in appropriate formats
• using text as a model for students’ own writing

For more information please see our Lesson Plan