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Sam's Mask
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478122008
Grade Level:
K
Reading Level:
E
Strategy/Skill:
Comprehension strategies, Fluency, Sequencing, Using texts as models for own writing
Genre:
General Narrative
Theme/Topic:
Art and Activity, Humor, School and Community
Classification:
Fiction
Fluency:
Emergent
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Book Summary
In this story, Sam makes a mask at school and then wears it home to give his mother a surprise.
Features of the Book
- The range of punctuation – question mark, exclamation point, and quotation marks.
- The high-frequency words – “He,” “the,” “said, “this,” and “a.”
- The adjectives – “big” and “long.”
- Sequence of events in a narrative.
- The different uses of apostrophes – “who’s” and “Sam’s.”
Purpose
Sam’s Mask can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:
- responding to simple questions about the story’s content
- encouraging reading using expression to increase understanding
- retelling the sequence of the story using own words
- writing a simple set of instructions
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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