Jenny Loves Yoga Level O
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 1085

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Book Summary
Jenny Loves Yoga is about Jenny and the different yoga poses she does each day to help her grow strong, flexible, and healthy. This introductory text touches on some of the reasons people practice yoga. Photographs show Jenny doing a variety of yoga poses.

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
Children should use a variety of strategies to determine word meaning and comprehend text. The targeted strategy for this lesson is: Going back and rereading.
Many strategies can be used while reading this book. To help decode what is being read, children should go back and reread what they have already read and ask themselves, ìDoes this make sense? Does this sound right?î By doing this, children will get a better idea of whether they are gaining word meaning as they read. Anytime a word or section of the book becomes difficult, children should slow down, look at the pictures, and continue on to the end of the sentence. They should then go back and reread the sentence, making sure to understand what they have read. This will help them to feel more confident that they are reading correctly. Doing these things, and asking questions before and during the reading, will help children make connections with the text, as well as gain a higher level of comprehension.

Word and Print Skills
Phonics
ee, ea, final e, y, and sometimes ie, as in piece, have the same long e sound

Word Work
Capitalization–Proper Nouns
Throughout the book, names of yoga poses are capitalized. This is a good opportunity to reiterate the importance of capitalizing proper nouns. Explain that the first word of a sentence and proper nouns are always capitalized. Explain to children what a proper noun is: a noun belonging to the class of words used as names for unique individuals, events, or places (definition provided by www.dictionary.com). Have children brainstorm some proper nouns to ensure that they understand this concept. This will be helpful for the activity from the Building Skills, Word Work section later in this lesson plan.

Suffixes
Throughout the book several different suffixes are used. Explain that word parts such as -ies, -s, -ed, -ing, -tion, or -ment that are added to a root word are called suffixes. Ask children to look for words in the book ending in a suffix and to circle them.

As a challenge, ask children if they can find a word in the book that has two suffixes added onto the root word (strengthening, page 17). Can they come up with any other words that use two suffixes? (wonderfully, carelessly, hopelessly, etc.)

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as children work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: Sequencing.
Because Jenny is going through her daily routine of yoga practice, this book lends itself to reinforcing the skill of sequencing. Talk about what it means to do things in a specific order. Relate this to a typical morning routine at school, or what happens each day before or after going to school. This will help children relate to this concept. Ask: Can you think of any activities that use a regular sequence or routine? (After school sports activities, chores at home, etc.)

Visual Learning
Yoga is a very structured practice of exercise. Without the aid of photos, it may be difficult for children to get a good idea of what the poses that Jenny is doing would look like. Ask: Without the pictures, would you have been able to do the poses from the book? It is also important to inform children that yoga is a serious form of exercise. They should be careful and have someone with them that is familiar with yoga before attempting any poses; they could hurt themselves if they are not sure about what they are doing.

Targeted Vocabulary Words
Content Words
yoga, practicing, positions, breathes, mountain, pose, salutation, straighten, muscles, tortoise, resemble, gaze, surface, balancing, strengthening, inversion, drain, pretzel, meditation, relaxes, several
Go over these words with children to increase their chance of a successful reading experience. By introducing these potentially difficult words, you may help children feel more comfortable with the text. These are only a few; and you should look over the text to see if there are any other words that should be added to the list.