What's in the Cookie Jar? 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780790321516 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Summarizing Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family, Food Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

One after another, family members help themselves to a chocolate chip cookies from the cookie jar. When Dad arrives home, only crumbs are left. This is a cheerful family story that will be familiar to many children.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of using illustrations to make predictions, noting details in illustrations, and summarizing the main ideas. It provides many opportunities to practice cross-checking and to focus on regular and irregular past-tense verbs. The repetitive structure provides support for less confident readers.

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

• the high-frequency words – and, in, the
• the initial consonant blends – cr, sn
• the digraph -ch – chocolate, chip
• the rime -um – yum, crumbs
• the contraction – what’s
• the use of “asked” rather than “said”
• the use of a question as the title
• the repetition in the text
• the use of exclamation marks
• the use of direct speech
• the children’s names

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