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ATOS:
0.9
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GRL:
B
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LEXILE:
TK
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CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS:
patterns, sorting
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WORD COUNT:
57
Tadpole Books are published by Jump!, 5357 Penn Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55419,
Copyright ©2018 Jump. International copyright reserved in all countries. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without
written permission from the publisher.
Editor:
Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
Designer:
Anna Peterson
Photo Credits:
Dreamstime: Simona Jasineviciene, 8–9. Getty: Elizabethsalleebauer, 10–11; Ulrike Schmitt-Hartmann, 12–13;
Jose Luis Pelaez, 14–15. Shutterstock: Ilya Andriyanov, cover; Vitaly Titov, 1, 4–5; vkuslandia, 2–3; Protstock-studio, 6–7.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mayerling, Tim, author.
Title: Patterns in winter / by Tim Mayerling.
Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Jump!, Inc., 2017. | Series: Patterns in the seasons | Audience: Ages 3–6. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016058424 (print) | LCCN 2017009926 (ebook) | ISBN 9781620317594 (hardcover: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781620317792 (pbk.) |
ISBN 9781624966064 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Pattern perception—Juvenile literature. | Winter—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC BF294 .M39 2017 (print) | LCC BF294 (ebook) | DDC 152.14/23—dc23
LC record available at
Skills to Teach
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HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS:
a, at, has, is, look, the, what
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CONTENT WORDS:
blanket, cookies, gifts, ground, pattern,
socks, sweater
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PUNCTUATION:
periods, question marks, exclamation point
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WORD STUDY:
long /e/, spelled
ie
(
cookies
); consonant
clusters (
gifts, socks
); /ng/, spelled
n
(
blanket
); short /oo/
(
cookies
,
look
); short /e/, spelled
ea
(
sweater
); dipthong
/ou/ (
ground
)
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TEXT TYPE:
factual description
Before Reading Activities
• Read the title and give a simple statement of the main idea.
• Have students “walk” though the book and talk about what
they see in the pictures.
• Introduce new vocabulary by having students predict the first
letter and locate the word in the text.
• Discuss any unfamiliar concepts that are in the text.
After Reading Activities
Write the book’s language pattern in two columns on the board:
“Look at the _____.” and “What is the pattern?” Encourage children
to look around the room and identify things that have patterns.
Write their answers under the first column. Then identify and
discuss the different kinds of patterns they see (stripes, spots,
etc.), and write them down under the second column.
TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
