DRA: 3Genre:Informational TextStrategy:QuestionSkill:Text and
Graphic Features
Word Count: 103
1.1.4
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Our Townby Taiyo Kobayashi
by Taiyo Kobayashi
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Cover Paul Conklin/PhotoEdit; 1 Leah
Warkentin/Design Pics/Corbis; 2 Hill Street Studios/Blend Image; 3
Ant Strack/Corbis; 4 2001 Mark Gibson/Jupiter Images; 5 (t) Ilene
MacDonald/Alamy, (m) Reuters/Corbis, (b) Gail Mooney/Corbis; 6
Banana Stock/Jupiter Images; 7 Michael Newman/PhotoEdit; 8 Leah
Warkentin/Design Pics/Corbis; 9 Somos Images/Corbis; 10 Paul
Conklin/PhotoEdit
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ISBN-13: 978-0-547-02782-1ISBN-10: 0-547-02782-6
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Our Town
2
Our town has a store.
We get food
at the store.
3
Our town has a park.
We run and play
at the park.
4
Our town has a post office.
We get mail
from the post office.
5
Our town has a zoo.
We see all the animals
at the zoo.
6
Our town has a school.
We draw and paint
at school.
7
Our town has a pet shop.
We pick a puppy
at the pet shop.
8
Our town has a library.
We read books
at the library.
9
Our town has a pool.
We swim and dive
at the pool.
10
Our town has
lots of friends!
11
Responding TARGET SKILL Text and Graphic
Features Find two pictures in the book. How do the pictures
help you understand the story?
Make a chart.
Text to World Think of a place in your town. Tell about
that place.
Talk About It
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get
food
our
see
we
WORDS TO KNOW
TARGET SKILL Text and Graphic Features Tell how words go with
photos.
TARGET STRATEGY Question Ask questions about what you
are reading.
GENRE Informational Text gives facts about a topic.
