Volcano 6-pack Author: Bronwen Wall ISBN: 9780790327648 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: G Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making connections Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Changing earth Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This book explains how a volcano can change the shape of the land.  Vivid photographs and cross-section diagrams show how a volcanic eruption can create a mountain, island, or lake. (Big idea: The land can change shape over time.)

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 strategies:

• gaining information from photographs
• reading captions
• using cross-section diagrams
• 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 (landforms), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Discovering My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • subject-specific vocabulary – crater, eruption, lava, ash
  • vivid photographs
  • cross-section diagrams
  • captions that describe photographs
  • glossary (boldface type)
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “gr-,” “bl-,” “sl-,” “cr-”
  • final blend – “-st”
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “sh,” “ch”
  • repetition of “bigger”
• Exclamation points
• Descriptive language – The ground shakes and rumbles

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