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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell I
Reading Recovery 15-16
DRA 16
Hippo's Toothache
Humorous (fiction), 276 words, Level I (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Story Elements
Phonological Awareness Sound Discrimination
Phonics Diphthongs
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary
Hippo's Toothache is about Harry the Hippo, who lives in the jungle and has a horrible toothache. His animal friends try to help him and decide that they should pull out his tooth. One by one, they try unsuccessfully to extract the tooth. Finally, the tooth is pulled. The story has a surprise ending.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making logical predictions based on text information
  • Understand and identify story elements
  • Discriminate diphthong /ou/ sound in words
  • Associate ou and ow letter combinations with diphthong /ou/ sound
  • Use capitalization correctly
  • Recognize compound words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: he, his, I, she, they, we
  • Content words: groaned, horrible, later, louder, moaned, pulled, terrible
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