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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell H
Reading Recovery 13-14
DRA 14
Summer Olympics Events
Informational (nonfiction), 153 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Classify Information
Phonological Awareness Manipulate Medial Sounds
Phonics Long Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Plural Nouns
Word Work Number Words

Book Summary
Summer Olympics Events is an informational book that describes some of the sports in which athletes compete during the Summer Olympic Games. Readers will learn about different types of water sports, gymnastics, and track and field events. Photographs help students make text-to-picture connections.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in a nonfiction text
  • Classify information
  • Manipulate medial sounds
  • Identify spellings for the long /i/ sound
  • Recognize plural nouns formed by adding -s and -es
  • Understand and identify number words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: are, can, from, have, one, use
  • Content words: balance, divers, gymnasts, leap, Olympics, races, stroke(s)
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