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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Don't Wake the Mummy
Adventure (fiction), 2,582 words, Level U (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Make Inferences
Grammar and Mechanics Pronouns
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
Don't Wake the Mummy is a fictional story about a fourth-grade girl and boy who go to Egypt on a class trip. While touring a pyramid, they accidentally waken a mummy in a burial chamber, which begins a humorous and exciting adventure. The children strategize to solve the problem and to avoid getting in trouble with their teacher.

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

Objectives

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions before and during reading
  • Make inferences about characters and events in text
  • Understand when to use the pronouns I and me
  • Recognize and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • Content words: Anubis, comprehension, corridor, cranky, escapade, hieroglyphics, initiate, lure, mummification, obedient, ominously, pharaoh, queue, revulsion, sarcophagus, shrieks, shrill, triumphantly, undetected, vacating
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