Signs Keep Us Safe 6-pack Author: Dot Meharry ISBN: 9780790327426 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: E Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making connections, Summarizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Health, Safety Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This book uses clear graphics and simple text to show how signs in the community help keep people safe. (Big idea: People take care of themselves by keeping safe.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• summarizing the main ideas.

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• getting information from graphics.

Features of the text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (signs), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Taking Care of Yourself
  • preview question on the back cover
  • graphic illustrations, photographs, and symbols
  • glossary
• Word study:
  • opportunities to build knowledge of letter–sound patterns and practice cross-checking decoding
    strategies
  • digraphs – “th” and “wh”
  • “ee” rime in “keep”
• italicized word “not” on page 9
• Question mark on pages and 11 and the back
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