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GRADES K - 1
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Chick and Chickie love to play, and, lucky for any emergent reader and their loved ones they love to play with key emergent literacy skills: letters, sounds, letter-sound correspondences, and basic sight words.
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Students build vocabulary by expanding their facilities with high-frequency transition words used in recounting a chain-of-events narrative through practice and oral recitation.
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Students narrate a story by providing exposition and transitions for events conveyed visually throughout the book.
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Students will make predictions, identify vocabulary, and learn about the comic format.
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Students will develop an understanding of sequential order while learning the days of the week and the pleasures of role-playing. |
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GRADES 1 - 2
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Legendary illustrator Hilary Knight’s “Nina” runs the gamut of dramatic emotions, from frustration to joy. Young readers will love identifying with the heroine in each sticky situation.
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Students will be able to recognize the unexpected outcomes of unconventional logic through solving the puzzles while exploring different narrative possibilites.
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Students hone prewriting skills by recounting and sequencing events and build on their grasp of story structure to create a personal narrative.
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Students practice making inferences about fictional characters and identify supporting evidence for their inferences.
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Students learn to identify the parts of a comic as text features (speech balloon, thought balloon, sound effect, etc.)
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Students will improve their reading comprehension by learning to use visual context clues and text features to understand the story’s progression.
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Students will improve their reading fluency by using visual clues and text features to read with greater expression.
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Readers Theater students develop fluency (including tone, pitch, and volume) as they read, rehearse, and perform.
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GRADES 2 - 3
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This early reader comic book is rich with cultural learning opportunities and fits
well alongside the IRA/NCTE standards that emphasize teaching reading, research,
and multicultural appreciation. This lesson plan focuses on how teachers and students can read and then conduct research on the foundational themes found in The Shark King.
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From a laugh-out-loud funny, creative-and-standards-based science learning book, an opportunity for librarians, science and language arts teachers to work alongside each other. Students will work though reading and writing science-based lesson idea steps.
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Students will use a combination of research results, fiction narrative, art and presentation software to create an electronic picture book that combines fiction and nonfiction.
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Students will practice teambuilding and learn to value the similarities and differences among diverse student populations through a self-portrait.
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Students learn to identify conflicts and problems in a plot, and see how solutions can create new problems and move the plot forward.
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