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Reading A-Z Level Level M Books
Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell L
Reading Recovery 19
DRA 24
The Three Little Pigs
Fairy Tale (fiction), 529 words, Level M (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonics Silent Letters
Grammar and Mechanics Past-Tense Verbs
Word Work Antonyms

Book Summary

The classic folktale The Three Little Pigs is retold with rich description--featuring the big, bad wolf huffing and puffing to blow down the straw house, the stick house, and the brick house. Memorable lines such as "Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin!" add to the fun, and the story ends with a breathless wolf toppling over in defeat. As expected, the three little pigs live happily ever after in the brick house. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
  • Sequence events
  • Identify silent k
  • Recognize and understand the formation of past-tense verbs ending in -ed
  • Recognize and use antonyms

Vocabulary

  • Content words: brick, budge, conversation, decide, exhale, haystack, huff, inhale, pies, puff, ravenous, slurped, sob, straw, tremble
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