We Celebrate 6-pack Author: Serena Rojas ISBN: 9780790327327 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: A Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Using captions, Using photos and illustrations to get information, Visualizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Celebrations and Traditions, Family, Festivals, Friends, Holidays Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This simple text looks at some of the ways people celebrate.  These include a birthday, Cinco de Mayo (Mexican-American heritage), Diwali (Indian/Nepalese heritage), Thanksgiving (American heritage), Hanukkah (Jewish heritage), Kwanzaa (African-American heritage), and New Year’s Eve.  (Big idea: There are many different people in the world.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• visualizing

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• gaining information from photographs
• using captions that name the celebrations

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (celebrations), which expands on pages 12 and 13 of the anchor book Discovering My
    World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • captions
  • photographs to convey information beyond the text
• Word study:
  • digraph – “th”
  • compound word – Thanksgiving
  • double medial sounds – different, Hanukkah
• Short, repetitive sentence structure
• Holiday names – Cinco de Mayo, Diwali,Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve
• Apostrophe – New Year’s Eve
• Exclamation point on page 8
• Theme of light in the photos – candles, fireworks

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.