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Up in Space
6-pack
ISBN: 9780790327624
Grade Level:
K
Reading Level:
B
Strategy/Skill:
Making connections, Main ideas
Genre:
Nonfiction
Theme/Topic:
Space, Science and Technology
Classification:
Nonfiction
Fluency:
Emergent
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Overview
This simple text looks at things that are up in space, such as the moon, a comet, stars, and astronauts. (Big idea: Scientists study Earth and space.)
Suggested Purposes
This book supports the following comprehension strategies:
- making connections between prior knowledge and the text
- summarizing the main ideas.
It supports the following nonfiction strategy:
- using photographs to get information.
Features of the Text
- Nonfiction features:
- cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
- the topic (things that are up in space), which expands on the idea from pages 10 and 11 of the
anchor book Being a Scientist
- preview question on the back cover
- Photographs that support the text
- Word study:
- initial consonant blends – “sp-“, “st-”
- exclamation point
- Repetitive sentence structure
- Mixture of familiar (moon, stars) and less familiar (comet, astronauts) objects in space
- Change in structure on fi nal page, which refers to something in space that we cannot see by simply looking
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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