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Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell M
Reading Recovery 20
DRA 28
Sparky's Mystery Fortune
Mystery (fiction), 521 words, Level N (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonics R-Controlled Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Contractions
Word Work Multiple Meaning Words

Book Summary

Emma and her family go to the Golden Pagoda restaurant every year on her mom's birthday. Before they leave, Emma puts their new puppy, Sparky, out in the backyard, but forgets to lock the gate. While at dinner, each member of the family receives a mysterious fortune in their fortune cookie. When they arrive home, they discover that Sparky has escaped the backyard. How will their fortunes help Emma and her family find Sparky?

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
  • Identify correct sequence of events in the text
  • Identify r-controlled /ur/ letter combinations er, ir, and ur
  • Recognize and use contractions correctly
  • Identify and distinguish between multiple-meaning words

Vocabulary

  • Content words: breathlessly, container, discovered, fortune cookies, mystery, restaurant, theories
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