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Hippo's Toothache
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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Hippo's Toothache
Humorous (fiction), 276 words,
Level I (Grade 1)
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Lesson Objectives |
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| Reading Strategy |
Make, revise, and confirm predictions |
| Comprehension |
Story Elements |
| Phonological Awareness |
Sound Discrimination |
| Phonics |
Diphthongs |
| Grammar and Mechanics |
Capitalization |
| Word Work |
Compound Words |
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Book Summary |
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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.
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About the Lesson |
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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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