Description

Biscuit Visits the Big City is a lovely book and a great choice for beginning guided reading. This PRINT AND GO unit will help your students get plenty of reading practice as close reading routines are implemented. It’s organized in a BEFORE/DURING/AFTER format for consistent skill modeling and practice.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?

•  prereading schema builder about living in the city
•  vocabulary organizer and word cards
•  comparing cities and counties
•  puppy poetry for fluency practice
•  visualizing
•  making connections organizer
•  summarizing information (BME)
•  questioning task cards and response form
•  summarizing with time order words
•  and writing frame about living in the city versus country

Be sure to check out the preview included above for a detailed look at the pages.

HOW TEACHERS CAN USE BISCUIT VISITS THE BIG CITY UNIT:

The pages can be printed and put under a document camera for group discussion or projected using TPT Easel. Students can work in teams to brainstorm ideas when working in whole group or work on specific skills with the teacher in guided reading groups. Teachers can also use this resource for book clubs for more independent readers.

WHAT OTHER TEACHERS THOUGHT OF THIS UNIT:

~I loved that this unit included reading, writing, and vocabulary lessons. It was a great resource to accompany our reading of Biscuit. I do wish it had included a reading quiz/test to assess reading comprehension.

~This unit contains several fun activities to help students comprehend and visualize the text. Thank you for sharing your hard work!

~Love the variety of activities! Kids love Biscuit books!

OTHER BEGINNING READER UNITS YOU MIGHT LIKE:

• Biscuit and the Little Pup
• Biscuit Visits the Big City
• Biscuit
• Mittens
• Chester
• Danny and the Dinosaur
• Sammy the Seal
• A Horse for Harry’s Room
• Lois Ehlert Books
• Clifford Unit
• The Fall Festival
• Just Critters Who Care

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