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Reading A-Z Level Level H Books
Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell H
Reading Recovery 13-14
DRA 14
Terell's Taste Buds
Realistic (fiction), 192 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Retell
Comprehension Story Elements
Phonological Awareness Discriminate Initial and Final Consonant Digraphs
Phonics Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Exclamation Marks
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary

Terell is a fussy eater. He eats the same foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. On Thanksgiving, Terell realizes none of his favorite foods are on the table. What will he eat? His grandmother knows how to solve the problem. What will she do? Terell's Taste Buds provides the opportunity to introduce story elements. Pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
  • Identify story elements
  • Discriminate initial and final consonant digraph /ch/
  • Identify initial and final consonant digraph ch
  • Identify and use exclamation marks
  • Understand how to alphabetize words to the second letter

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: ate, every, said, that, they, this, with
  • Content words: breakfast, dinner, fussy, habits, lunch, taste buds
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