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We Can Run and Play
6-pack
ISBN: 9780790327167
Grade Level:
K
Reading Level:
A
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Overview
This informational text is about children enjoying exercise. They can jump, hop, run, slide, climb, and swing. The lively photographs and brightly colored illustrations engage the reader. The simple, repetitive text supports emergent readers. (Big idea: People take care of themselves by doing exercise.)
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 support the text.
Features of the Text
- Nonfiction features:
- the topic (doing exercise), which expands on pages 12 and 13 of the anchor book Taking Care of
Yourself
- cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
- preview question on the back cover
- combination of photographs and illustrations
- background illustrations that convey motion
- Word study:
- blends – “sw-,” “sl-,” “cl-,” “pl-”
- digraph – “th”
- vowel sounds – “ee,” “oo”
- present tense verbs – run, jump, hop, slide, climb, swing, play
- Short sentences
For more information please see our Lesson Plan.
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