Wind Blows, The 6-pack Author: Sharon Hill ISBN: 9780478264234 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Phonemic awareness, Text structure, Using texts as models for own writing Theme/Topic: Weather Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

A girl and her father observe the effect the wind has on a variety of outdoor activities.

Word Study

• High-frequency words: The, the, I, can, see, My, is
• Highlighting repeated phrases – The wind blows the ___ .  I can see the ___ fly.
• Punctuation: periods, exclamation point, capital letters
• Phonemic awareness:
  • – Th, th – The, the
  • – b – balloon, blows, bubble
  • – f – flag, fly, flying
  • – onsets and rimes – c/an, h/at

Skills and Strategies

Reading The Wind Blows will reinforce the following objectives and give the children the opportunity to:

• identify onset and rime within new words
• emphasize left-to-right movement to reinforce directionality
• use the context of the story to make predictions
• use text as a model for writing

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 123
• copies of BLM, pencils, markers
• hand held fan, crayons, paper