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Too Big for Me!

6-pack

Author: Feana Tu'akoi
ISBN: 9780478264296

Grade Level: K, 1, 2
Reading Level: C
Strategy/Skill: Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Text structure
Theme/Topic: Health, Math
Classification: Nonfiction
Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

A mother and her daughter sort out some clothes and find that they need to be passed on to the younger daughter, Kate.

 

 

Word Study

  • High-frequency words: Big, My, are, big, can, for, is, it, said, me, Me, Mom
  • Punctuation: periods, commas, quotation marks, exclamation points, capital letters
  • Phonics and phonemic awareness:
    • – M – Mom, My
    • – s – said, shoes, skirt, small, sweater
    • – Th, th – These, them
  • Use of capital letters for names – Kate, Mom

 

 

Skills and Strategies

Reading Too Big for Me! will reinforce the following objectives and give the children the opportunity to:

  • recognize sound/letter relationships
  • emphasize left-to-right movement and reinforce directionality
  • point one-to-one as each word is read to ensure an appropriate match
  • prepare for independent writing using a variety of methods

 

 

Materials

  • copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 120
  • copies of BLM, pencils, markers
  • a collection of different sized children’s clothing (hat, coat, sweater, shoes)

 

 

For more information please see our Lesson Plan

Price: $18.00


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