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Reading A-Z Level Level M Books
Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell L
Reading Recovery 19
DRA 24
Hibernation
Informational (nonfiction), 453 words, Level M (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Compare and Contrast
Phonics Rhyme
Grammar and Mechanics Common Nouns
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary

Have you ever wondered why some animals hibernate during the cold winter months? Where do they sleep? How do they survive? Hibernation provides information about animals that hibernate and how they stay alive during the winter months. Amazing pictures bring the text to life and draw young readers into the book.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in a nonfiction text
  • Compare and contrast information
  • Identify rhyming words
  • Read and identify common nouns
  • Correctly alphabetize words

Vocabulary

  • Content words: breathe, burrows, cold-blooded, hibernate(s), hibernating, migrate, predators, scarce, sound, survive, torpor, trouble, warm-blooded winter
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