Vamos al río 6-pack Author: Feana Tu 'akoi ISBN: 9780790328591 Lesson Plan Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Summarizing Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Environment Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This narrative text features some African animals going to the river.  The climax of the story occurs when Lion appears and the other animals beat a hasty retreat!

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of making and confirming predictions, summarizing the main ideas, making connections (with the students’ knowledge of African animals), and forming hypotheses.  It provides opportunities to practice one-to-one word matching and to reinforce high-frequency words and knowledge of upper-case letters.  The varying lengths of the animal names help to reinforce the concept of a word.

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

•  the high-frequency words – going, is, the, to
•  the use of a variety of upper-case letters
•  the upper-case and lower-case forms of initial letters – Going, going; River, river
•  the -ing ending – going
•  the -un rime in run
•  the animal names
•  the repetitive sentence structure
•  the opportunities for prediction on page 7
•  the change in structure on page 8
•  the use of the exclamation mark for emphasis on page 8
•  the strong support for the text provided by the illustrations

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.