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Building a Bridge
Informational (nonfiction), 312 words, Level I (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness R-Controlled Vowels
Phonics R-Controlled Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Time-Order Words
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary

Have you ever looked at a bridge and wondered how it was built? Building a Bridge is a great photo book that shows some of the amazing bridges that exist. It explains various types of bridges and details how a bridge is built.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
  • Sequence events
  • Discriminate final r-controlled /er/
  • Recognize, sort, and classify words with r-controlled /er/
  • Identify time-order words
  • Understand content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: some, these, they, this, under, were
  • Content words: first, legs, simple, stone, table, trucks, wood, years