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How Glooskap Found Summer
Level I
Benchmark Books
Serial Books
| Reading A-Z Level |
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| Grade |
1 |
| Fountas & Pinnell |
I |
| Reading Recovery |
15-16 |
| DRA |
16 |
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How Glooskap Found Summer
Folktale (fiction), 257 words,
Level I (Grade 1)
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Lesson Objectives |
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| Reading Strategy |
Visualize |
| Comprehension |
Cause and Effect |
| Phonological Awareness |
Medial Sound |
| Phonics |
Variant Vowels |
| Grammar and Mechanics |
Verb Tense |
| Word Work |
Compound Words |
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Book Summary |
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In this Native American tale, Glooskap, the leader of his people, seeks a way to end the perilous winter that has gripped the land. He finds that a giant named Winter has caused the cold weather. After escaping from Winter' s spells, Glooskap travels far to the south and finds a woman named Summer who can defeat the giant and bring warmth to the land.
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About the Lesson |
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Targeted Reading Strategy
Objectives
- Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand the story and remember information
- Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
- Manipulate medial sounds
- Identify words with variant vowel /ow/ digraph and diphthong
- Compare and correctly use verb tenses
- Identify and create compound words
Vocabulary
High-frequency words: could, other, there, under Content words: bloomed, escaped, Glooskap, invited, spell, spoke
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