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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell H
Reading Recovery 13-14
DRA 14
How the Mice Beat the Men
Folktale (fiction), 229 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Medial Sound
Phonics Vowel Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Plural Nouns
Word Work Synonyms

Book Summary
How the Mice Beat the Men is a delightful retelling of a Native American folktale. Students will enjoy reading about how the mice won the war against the men.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions based on text information
  • Sequence story events
  • Manipulate medial sounds
  • Read long /e/ vowel digraph words
  • Recognize and use plural nouns
  • Identify synonyms

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: much, said, their, were
  • Content words: arrows, bows, crept, feathers, gnawed, slings, squeak, strings, war
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