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Transform It!
6-pack
ISBN: 9780790327662
Grade Level:
2
Reading Level:
K
Strategy/Skill:
Author's purpose, Main ideas, Summarizing
Genre:
Nonfiction
Theme/Topic:
Environment, Materials and objects
Classification:
Nonfiction
Fluency:
Fluent
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Overview
This book looks at some of the items that can be made from recycled glass, paper, plastic, and aluminum. Interesting photographs and lively text create many opportunities for discussion. (Big idea: People need to recycle things instead of throwing them away.)
Suggested Purposes
This book supports the following comprehension strategies:
- understanding the author’s purpose
- summarizing the main ideas
It supports the following nonfiction strategies:
- using photographs to get information
- using headings that grab the reader’s attention
- using captions that give interesting facts
- using a contents page
- using flow charts to describe a process
- using a glossary (boldface type)
- using an index
Features of the Text
- Nonfiction features:
- cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
- the topic (recycling), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Helping Planet Earth
- preview question on the back cover
- contents page and index
- questions as headings
- photographs
- flow charts
- captions
- glossary (boldface type)
- labels
- Word study:
- initial consonant blends – “tr-,” “sp-,” “pr-,” “gl-,” “str-,” “cr-,” “st-,” “fr-,” “pl-,” “cl-,” “br-”
- final consonant digraphs – “-sh,” “-th”
- word beginning “re” – recycle, resources
- digraph sounds – “sh,” “th,” “ch,” “thr”
- contractions – it’s, don’t, let’s
- procedural words – first, next, then, now, finally
- compound words – landfill, windshield, everywhere, newspaper, cardboard, skateboards
- Question marks
- Exclamation points
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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