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Bird Goes Home
Realistic (fiction), 46 words, Level A (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Syllable Awareness
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization and Punctuation
Word Work Position Words

Book Summary

The little bird has a long way to go to get back to her nest. She has to cross a city, a farm, mountains, and other obstacles. Touching illustrations accompany a text with repeated sentence patterns to make decoding easier.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions
  • Sequence story events
  • Identify syllables in words
  • Associate the letter Bb with the sound /b/
  • Recognize capital letters and periods in print
  • Understand words associated with position

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: the, over
  • Content words: bird, cars, city, farm, mountains, streets, tables, tree