This Is My Family 6-pack Author: Ashleigh Young ISBN: 9780790327587 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: G Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Making inferences Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Family, Friends, History, Society Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This simple first-person narrative is the story of one boy’s family heritage, from his great grandfather to his immediate family.  Historical and present-day photographs depict each generation and are supported by brief stories.  (Big idea: There are many different countries and people in the world.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• making inferences

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• gathering information from photographs
• gathering information from a family tree
• using specialized vocabulary
• using a glossary (boldface type)

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (family heritage), which expands on pages 12 and 13 of the anchor book Discovering
    My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • black-and-white and color photographs
  • family tree diagram
  • specialized vocabulary
  • labels
  • glossary (boldface type)
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “gr-,” “st-,” “gl-,” “sc-”
  • final consonant blend – “-st”
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “sh,” “ch”
  • contractions – I’m, it’s
  • compound words – grandparents, grandmother, grandfather, sometimes, became
  • plurals – daughters, stories
  • family words – grandparents, father
• First-person narrative
• Conversational tone, including use of question marks and exclamation points
• Past and present tense
   

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.