Animals Feel Emotions

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Reading A-Z Level
Grade	3
Fountas & Pinnell	O
Reading Recovery	34
DRA	34

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Animals Feel Emotions
Persuasive (nonfiction), 1,167 words, Level S (Grade 3)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Summarize
Comprehension	Author's Purpose
Grammar and Mechanics	Compound Sentences
Word Work	Compound Words

Book Summary

Do you think animals are capable of love? The author of this book does. She also believes that animals can feel and demonstrate loyalty, friendship, tenderness, and compassion. As evidence of this, she presents several different examples of real-life animals and how they show emotion. When you finish reading, will you agree or disagree with the author's point of view?

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

Summarize

Objectives

Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
Analyze author’s purpose in the text
Identify and use compound sentences
Understand the meaning of compound words

Vocabulary

Content words: abandon, amputated, compassion, devotion, ecstatically, eventually, evidence, instincts, loyalty, malignant, passive, rambunctious