Wash It Away 6-pack Author: Yvonne Morrison ISBN: 9780790327860 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: I Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Summarizing, Visualizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Daily routines, Health, Hygiene Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

This book explains the importance of keeping clean. A straightforward second-person narrative explains how keeping clean helps us feel good about ourselves, and vivid photographs show that keeping clean can be fun.  (Big idea: People take care of themselves by keeping clean.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• summarizing the main ideas
• making and confirming predictions
• visualizing

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• gathering information from photographs and captions
• using a flow chart
• using a diagram
• using the contents page and index
• 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 (keeping clean), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Taking Care of Yourself
  • preview question on the back cover
  • contents and index pages
  • closeup pictures to show detail
  • flow diagram
  • captions
  • bulleted list
  • fact boxes
  • glossary (boldface type)
• Word study:
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “sh”
  • initial blend – “br-,” “sw-,” “cl-,” “pl-,” “spr-”
  • contractions – don’t, it’s, you’re
  • compound words – bathroom, fingernails, yourself, into
• Conversational style of writing, including question marks and exclamation points
• Alliteration – happy hair, terrific teeth

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