Skipper's Happy Tail 6-pack Author: Sharon Holt ISBN: 9780790321172 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: E Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Making predictions Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family, Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Overview

In this humorous narrative, Skipper’s tail causes all kinds of trouble but finally comes in useful.  The dramatic events and lively dialogue encourage expressive reading.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of:

• making connections to real-life experiences
• making and confirming predictions

There is another Dragonflies early book about this character, No, Skipper!

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

• the variety of initial consonant blends
• the digraphs -ch – children; -ph – Sophie; -sh – brushed, crash, shed, shopping, shouted; -th – the, there, they
• the repeated rimes – here, there; get, wet; flicked, pick, tickled; out, shouted
• the strong narrative structure with a clear sequence of events
• the dramatic style
• the characterization of Skipper
• the expressive illustrations
• the possessive apostrophes in “Greg’s,” “Skipper’s,” and “Sophie’s”
• the lively verbs
• the expressive dialogue, including imperative language
• the use of exclamation marks for emphasis
• the use of onomatopoeia – crash!

For more information please see our Lesson Plan

For more information please see our Lesson Plan