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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
Does It Sink or Float?
Informational (nonfiction), 137 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Author's Purpose
Phonological Awareness Initial Blends
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Punctuation
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary
In Does It Sink or Float? students have the opportunity to use what they know about familiar objects to determine whether each will sink or float in water. Interesting photographs are included to enhance student understanding of the concepts sink and float. Repetitive phrases and high-frequency words support early readers.

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 the author’s purpose
  • Discriminate initial consonant blend /fl/ sound
  • Identify initial consonant blend fl
  • Recognize, identify, and use question marks
  • Understand, use, and write the high-frequency word will

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: look, or, some, these, which, will
  • Content words: apple, float, golf, marble, penny, sink, water, watermelon
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