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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell I
Reading Recovery 15-16
DRA 16
Life at the Pond
Informational (nonfiction), 342 words, Level I (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Initial Blends
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Adjectives
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary
Life at the Pond is a look at the many different plants and animals that live in and around a pond. It gives an overview of this specialized ecosystem and focuses on how insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals move, eat, raise their young, and build homes. Children will enjoy learning about this small world where so many things are happening. Photos support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to make sense of text
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Discriminate initial consonant blend /sp/ sound
  • Recognize and read initial consonant blend sp words
  • Recognize adjectives as words that describe
  • Alphabetize content vocabulary words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: here, live, they, what
  • Content words: beaver, blue heron, bullfrog, insects, lily pad, reptiles, springtail, tadpole, turtle, water strider, whirligig beetle
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