Two Simple Rules 6-pack Author: Trish Puharich ISBN: 9780790327709 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: F Strategy/Skill: Evaluating ideas and information, Main ideas Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Safety, School and Community Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

In this book, a teacher and students discuss classroom rules.  Vivid photographs and lively text help to place the reader in the classroom.  (Big idea: People need to get along and help one another.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• identifying the main ideas
• evaluating ideas and information

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using photographs to get information
• using lists and charts to record information
• 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 (classroom rules), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Discovering
    My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • lists and charts
  • action photographs
  • questions
  • glossary (boldface type)
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “gr-,” “wr-,” “sp-,”br-,” “cl-”
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “sh,” “kn”
  • contraction – that’s
• Speech marks and exclamation points
• Possessive apostrophe – people’s

For more information please see our Lesson Plan