Stop That Noise! 6-pack Author: Diana Noonan ISBN: 9780478122015 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Fluency, Making predictions, Phonemic awareness, Using texts as models for own writing Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Family, Humor Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Here is a family that really likes to sing.  The two young children join in to sing with Mom, Dad, the baby, and their grandparents. But when the family dog decides to show its talent….

Features of the Book

• Clear, consistently placed text blocks.
• A familiar setting.
• The close picture/text match.
• The names – “Mom,” “Dad,” “Grandma,” and “Granddad.”
• The capital letters for the characters’ names.
• The repeated phrase – “When _____ sings, we sing too.”
• The quotation marks and exclamation point.
• The “ing” letter cluster – “sing” and “sings.”
• The double “oo” vowel – “too.”
• The high-frequency words – “we” and “that.”

Purpose

Stop That Noise! can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:

• predicting the meanings of new or unfamiliar words from the context of the story
• hearing the individual sounds in words encouraging reading using expression to increase understanding
• writing a story that incorporates a similar model to that of the book

For more information please see our Lesson Plan