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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
Best of Friends
Realistic (fiction), 127 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Retell
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonants
Phonics Short Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Proper Nouns
Word Work Antonyms

Book Summary

Tiger and Lily hissed at each other. They were enemies. Will they become the best of friends? Best of Friends provides the opportunity to practice retelling and identifying cause-and-effect relationships. Repetitive language and high-frequency words make this a great book for emergent readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
  • Identify cause and effect
  • Discriminate initial consonant /f/
  • Identify short /a/ vowel
  • Identify and use proper nouns
  • Locate and use antonyms

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: first, got, if, there, were, with,
  • Content words: enemies, friends, hissed, Lily, raced, Tiger, waking
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