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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell S
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Body Art
Informational (nonfiction), 1,479 words, Level X (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Ask and answer questions
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Complex Sentences
Word Work Suffixes

Book Summary
Have you noticed how people decorate their bodies in different ways? In addition to clothing and hairstyles, people have many ways of adorning their bodies. Body art has been practiced since the beginning of time. Readers will learn about some of the ways people around the world create body art. Engaging photographs support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
  • Main idea and details
  • Identify and understand the use of complex sentences
  • Identify the meanings of suffixes -al and -ion

Vocabulary

  • Content words: adorning, ancestral, anthropologists, blemishes, conform, culture, elongated, ethnic, individuality, intricate, permanent, pigments, prehistoric, rite of passage, spiritual, status, temporary, unique
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