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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell M
Reading Recovery 20
DRA 28
Makusani's Lesson
Folktale (fiction), 1,096 words, Level O (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Analyze Setting
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Contractions

Book Summary
Makusani's Lesson is a Venezuelan folktale about a very curious young boy on an adventure in the forest. Makusani is a good boy, but his curiosity always seems to get him into trouble.

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

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
  • Analyze changes in the setting
  • Identify and understand the use of quotation marks
  • Recognize and use contractions

Vocabulary

  • Content words: approached, blowgun, boa constrictor, curious, grove, Huenna, inquired, Makusani, Nanudi, repeatedly, replied, slithered, tinamou
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