Where Do Animals Live? 6-pack Author: Carla Wakefield ISBN: 9780790327846 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Asking questions, Making connections Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Habitats, Natural world Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This simple text looks at the habitats of frogs, owls, rabbits, bats, and fish. (Big idea: Scientists study plants and animals to help us understand them.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension
strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• asking questions.

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• learning information from photographs.

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (habitats), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Being a Scientist
  • preview question on the back cover
  • opportunities to make predictions with the use of a question throughout the book
  • text supported by illustrations
  • matching of each animal to its habitat
  • glossary

• Word study:
  • plural nouns – bats, owls, frogs, rabbits
  • noun that is both singular and plural – fish
  • initial consonant blends – “wh-,” “fr-,” “tr-“
  • digraph – “th”
  • soft “c” in ocean (before “e”) and the hard “c” in cave (before “a”)

• Repeated pairs of letters – rabbits, burrows, trees
• Repetitive sentence structure (question then answer)
   

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.