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Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell M
Reading Recovery 20
DRA 28
Whales
Informational (nonfiction), 1,106 words, Level O (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Compound Words
Word Work Digraphs

Book Summary
Whales is a factual text with photos that includes types of whales, feeding habits, sounds, reproduction, and migration. The author points out that many whales are endangered and in need of our respect and protection.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing
  • Identify main idea and details in text
  • Recognize and form compound words
  • Understand the wh digraph

Vocabulary

  • Content words: baleen, blowhole, blubber, buoyant, decibel, extinction, narwhal, pod
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