We Get Squished! 6-pack Author: Philippa Werry ISBN: 9780478123289 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: A, B Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Phonemic awareness Theme/Topic: Food, Problem Solving Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Mom takes her two children to the supermarket, and as she adds groceries to the cart, they get more and more squished.

Building Basic Skills

• High-frequency word – We
• Content words – Get, Squished, fish, meat, pizza, pasta, bread, bananas, soda, get, squished
• Repeated phrase – We get some
• Phonics and phonemic awareness – p (pasta, pizza), b (bread, bananas)
• Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation points

Skills and Strategies

We Get Squished! can be used to introduce and reinforce:

• predicting the story line using illustrations from the book
• pointing one-to-one at each word to ensure an appropriate match
• writing labels for a specific purpose
• hearing the individual sounds in words.

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 90, cut and ready for use
• copies of BLM, pencil, markers
• card, markers
• grocery packaging, plastic money, surface for a “store” counter.