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Up the Tree
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478123319
Grade Level:
K, 1, 2
Reading Level:
A, B
Strategy/Skill:
Phonics, Sequencing
Theme/Topic:
Family, Problem Solving
Classification:
Fiction
Fluency:
Emergent
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Book Summary
Cat gets stuck chasing a bird up a tree, followed by the boy, girl, Dad, and Mom. They are all brought down by a firefighter, but once they are down,
the bird and cat go up the tree again.
Building Basic Skills
- High-frequency words – Up, the, The, is, going, up
- Content words – Tree, bird, cat, boy, girl, Dad, Mom, firefighter
- Repeated phrase – The … is going up
- Phonics and phonemic awareness – g (going, girl); word ending -ing (going)
- Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation point
- Special Features – Sequenced illustrations on page 15; Circular story structure
Skills and Strategies
Up the Tree can be used to introduce and reinforce:
- retelling the sequence of the story using own words
- creating artwork or a piece of writing related to the text
- writing labels for a specific purpose
- recognizing the relationship between letters and their sounds
Materials
- copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 90, cut and ready for use
- copies of BLM, pencil, scissors, glue
- large paper, paper strips, glue, stapler
- paint, leaves for collage, glue, markers, scissors
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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