Training Ruby 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780790321448 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Using graphic sources Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Communication, Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

In this text, a boy proudly demonstrates how well trained his dog is until temptation proves too strong, and the dog runs away with some sausages.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of:

• making connections to real-life experiences
• using illustrations to understand the text
• analyzing and synthesizing
• evaluating

It provides many opportunities to practice cross-checking and to focus on regular and irregular past-tense verbs.  The repetitive structure provides support for less confident readers.

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

•  the high-frequency words – and, come, good, I, said
•  the rimes in jump, sat, sit
•  the initial consonant blend -st – stay, stayed
•  the verbs ending in -ed – jumped, stayed, walked
•  the irregular past-tense verbs – ate, came, sat
•  the use of imperative verbs
•  the use of speech marks
•  the opportunities for expressive reading
•  the repetitive structure
•  the relationship between the boy and his dog
•  the story line carried by the illustrations
•  the humorous ending

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.