Nick's Glasses Level 6-8

Nick's Glasses is a humorous and relatable tale about a boy who's misplaced his glasses-while they're right on his nose! As his family members try to help without giving it away, readers are invited into a light-hearted mystery with a satisfying ending. The book features frequent direct speech and questioning, creating an interactive reading experience. It also supports positional language with prepositions such as œunder, œin, œon, and œbehind, ideal for vocabulary development. The blend œgl is introduced with the word œglasses, helping build phonemic awareness. The use of high-frequency words and accessible sentence structures makes this book suitable for guided reading, while the engaging storyline encourages prediction and inferencing based on illustrations. Humorous and familiar, this book helps readers build comprehension while enjoying a silly situation that many can relate to.

Educational Benefits:

• Enhances understanding of prepositions and spatial language.
• Reinforces high-frequency word use in context.
• Supports prediction and inference from both text and illustrations.
• Develops fluency through the use of dialogue.

Classroom Ideas:

• Set up a treasure hunt using prepositional clues.
• Role-play the story using props or student-made glasses.
• Create a class chart of where students might find lost items.
• Use speech bubbles to rewrite the dialogue on sentence strips.

Information:

• Ages: 5-7
• Reading Level: 6-8 (Yellow)
• Book dimensions: 16.5cm x 14.5cm