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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
Friends in the Stars
Concept (fiction), 129 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Reality and Fantasy
Phonological Awareness Blend Phonemes
Phonics Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Interrogative Sentences
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary
In Friends in the Stars, a mother dog and her pup play a game with the stars while sitting in the backyard. Students will enjoy connecting the dots (stars) on each page to reveal the different pictures Momma and Puppy are seeing in the stars. Along with creative illustrations, early readers are supported by high-frequency words and a repeated phrase throughout the story.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
  • Categorize parts of the story into reality and fantasy
  • Demonstrate how to blend phonemes
  • Name words that contain the s-blends
  • Identify and create interrogative sentences
  • Recognize and use high-frequency words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: an, at, away, down, from, I, little, look, me, pretty, see, what, white, with, you
  • Content word: stars
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