Shapes of the Land 6-pack Author: Pavan Cook ISBN: 9780790327808 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Asking questions, Main ideas, Making connections Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Changing earth Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This simple text explores the features of natural landscapes, such as a mountain, bay, and river.  It provides opportunities to identify different  shapes within the landscapes.  (Big idea: The land has different shapes.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• identifying the main ideas
• asking questions

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• getting information from photographs.

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (natural features of the land), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book
    Discovering My World
  • preview question on the back cover
    photographs that support the text
  • picture glossary
• Word study:
  • medial sound – shape, land
  • rime in “bay”
  • words within words – l-and, th-is, can-y-on
  • common digraphs – “sh,” “th
  • familiar vocabulary (mountain, river, lake) and less familiar (canyon, bay)
• Short sentences
• Repetitive sentence structure with a change on page 8
• Question on page 8
• Opportunities for discussion using knowledge of different shapes

For more infromation please see our Lesson Plan.