Life at the Pond

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Grade	1
Fountas & Pinnell	I
Reading Recovery	15-16
DRA	16

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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