Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Fantasy (fiction), 117 words, Level E (Grade 1), Lexile 270L
Tiny Tugboat has a huge job before him when a crowd of boats get stuck in the bay. The plucky tugboat goes to work. Students will enjoy watching him set free boats, ships, and even a submarine! Cartoony illustrations bring humor and personality to the story. Tiny Tugboat uses shorter sentences and dialogue appropriate for emergent readers, and also teaches students about sequencing events and quotation marks.
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Lesson Resources
High-Frequency Words
are, other, out
Story Words
boats, pulls, ships, stuck, submarine, tugboat
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Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Visualize to understand text
Comprehension
Sequence Events : Sequence events
Phonological Awareness
Initial and Final Sounds : Discriminate initial consonant /t/ sound
Phonics
Consonant Digraphs : Identify initial consonant Tt
Grammar and Mechanics
Quotation Marks : Recognize and use quotation marks
Word Work
High-Frequency Words : Identify and use the high-frequency word out
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
