Where I Live 6-pack Author: Mary Cappellini ISBN: 9780478123746 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Using texts as models for own writing Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Relationships, Safety, School and Community Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Where I Live explores the places that are near a girl’s home that she and her mother can visit.

Features of the Book

• The repetitive and predictable structure.
• Clear letter spacing.
• The use of an ellipsis and exclamation point.
• The change in text structure on the final page.
• The rhymes – “mall,” “tall” and “freeway,” “play.”
• Photographs to support the text.
• The double vowels – “oo” and “ee.”
• The high-frequency words – “I” and “a.”

Purpose

Where I Live can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:

• recognizing rhyming words
• recognizing the relationship between letters and their sounds
• sharing own experiences related to the content of the story
• writing a story that incorporates a similar model to that of the book

For more information please see our Lesson Plan