Ready to Ride 6-pack Author: Spike Hooper ISBN: 9780790326511 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: D Strategy/Skill: Drawing conclusions, Making predictions Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Health, Hygiene, Safety Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

In this book, a father and daughter decide to go for a bike ride.  They know it is important to keep safe, so they check their tires, brakes, and helmets.  Once their bikes are safe, they go for a ride. (Big idea: People take care of themselves by keeping safe.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making and confirming predictions
• drawing conclusions.

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using labels
• using photos to reinforce the meaning of the text.

 Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (safety), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Taking Care of Yourself
  • preview question on the back cover
  • background illustrations of bike parts
  • photographs that support the text
  • labels

• Word study:
  • initial blend – “br”
  • digraph – “ch”
  • words beginning with “r” – ready, ride
  • medial sound – “ck”
  • vowel sounds “oo” and ”ee” – looks, good, need,keep
  • “ed” word endings – checked
  • silent “e” – safe (changing the short “a” sound to long)
    
• Two-sentence pages
• Speech marks on each page
• Repetitive sentence structure with a change on page 10
• Apostrophe – we’re
   

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.