Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Tiny Tugboat
Fantasy (fiction), 117 words, Level E (Grade 1)
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.
Lesson Resources
Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Visualize to understand text
Comprehension
Sequence Events : Sequence events
Phonics
Consonant Digraphs : Identify initial consonant Tt
Grammar and Mechanics
Quotation Marks : Recognize and use quotation marks
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
