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03 Apr 09

Building a Bridge - Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans for BUILDING A BRIGE level I

Text Type:
Fact / Informational Text

Reading Level:
I

Word Count:
319

Pages:
14

Text Summary
Have you ever looked at a bridge and wondered how it was built? Building a Bridge is a great photo book that shows some of the amazing bridges that exist. It explains various types of bridges and details how a bridge is built.

Suggested Lesson Focus
The following skills are suggested for the lesson focus, and strategies will be provided for these skills throughout the lesson. Most likely, other skills will be addressed in the course of reading and discussing the book.

Comprehension
Inferring
Using the content of this book, help children infer information about bridges by asking some of the following questions after children have read. These questions will produce a variety of answers from children. Most of the answers are not provided in the book. Consequently, children will have to put details from the book together to infer a reasonable answer to the question(s) you ask.
Ask: Why do we have bridges? How do people decide where to put bridges? Why did bridges need to be built longer and stronger? Why did people begin building bridges of steel and concrete, rather than of wood, rope or stone? How do you think people decide what type of bridge to build? How do you think cofferdams were invented? How do you think bridges were made before cofferdams were invented? Do you think building a bridge is dangerous? Do you think building a bridge would be exciting, or scary?

Phonological Awareness
Have children listen for and identify the r sounds in words.

Phonics
r sound

Word Work
Time and order words

Mechanics
Punctuation—Commas used to establish a time frame, or to list and/or separate ideas

Visual Learning
The photographs in the book provide children with an opportunity to see bridges they may not have seen before. They help to give an idea how varied bridges can be. The table provides information that may be new to children. Go over the photos and the table, and ask que

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Families - Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans for FAMILIES level I

Text Type:
Fact / Informational text

Reading Level:
I
Word Count:
312

Pages:
16

Text Summary
Families is a book about various members who can make up a family and how they are related. Since family structure can vary drastically these days, children may benefit from understanding the variety that exists. Children may learn from this book that no matter what their family tree may look like, their family is theirs and that means it's special.

Reader Supports

* One-to-one picture correspondence
* Familiar topic
* Repetitive patterns
* Repetition of high utility and content words

Reader Challenges

* Unfamiliar story words
* Unfamiliar topic

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategies
Children should use a variety of strategies to decode words and bring meaning to print. The targeted strategy for this lesson is: Look inside out for word parts that help establish meaning.
As we know, families today can have many stepparents and stepsiblings, as well as half siblings. If these concepts are unfamiliar, it may be easier to look inside the word for a word that is familiar, then add on the prefix. Children may need to go back, reread, and summarize to be sure they comprehend what the author is teaching them. This will help establish meaning as they move on through the text. For others, the concepts in the book will be easier, and making connections will help them as they decode and establish meaning.

Word and Print Skills
Phonological Awareness
gr is grrrr
Focusing on the words great and grandma discuss with children that gr blends together to sound like grrrr.

Phonics
S plural vs. ’s possessive
Have children look for words that end in s. This is a good story to discuss the difference between plural and apostrophe s used as a possessive. Some examples of plural s are relatives: grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles. Families can be used; however the -ies- makes the plural form more complicated.
Some examples of apostrophe s are mother