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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell I
Reading Recovery 15-16
DRA 16
How Glooskap Found Summer
Folktale (fiction), 257 words, Level I (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Phonological Awareness Medial Sound
Phonics Variant Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Verb Tense
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary
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.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

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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