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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell H
Reading Recovery 13-14
DRA 14
Police Officers
Informational (nonfiction), 219 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Blend Phonemes
Phonics Short Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Commas
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary
A police officer has many different jobs--keeping people safe, enforcing laws, patrolling the streets, solving crimes, and more. In this book, readers learn about what it takes to become a police officer, what police officers wear, how they get around, and how they help people. Detailed illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand nonfiction text
  • Identify main idea and details in the text
  • Blend phonemes
  • Recognize and read words with short /a/ vowel
  • Recognize that commas are used to break a sentence into meaningful units
  • Understand and identify compound words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: have, many, some, their, there, they, you
  • Content words: crimes, officer(s), people, police, problems, protect, traffic, train, uniforms
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