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Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
The Hard Stuff! All About Bones
Informational (nonfiction), 1,691 words, Level U (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Complex Sentences
Word Work Multiple Meaning Words

Book Summary
What do humans have in common with snakes, elephants, and whales? A skeleton! The numbers of bones may vary, but the purpose is the same--to support and protect all of the organs inside the body. Photographs, illustrations, X-rays, and detailed diagrams of various bones help readers make meaningful connections with the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
  • Identify main idea and details in nonfiction text
  • Recognize complex sentences
  • Identify and use multiple-meaning words

Vocabulary

  • Content words: appendages, ball-and-socket joint, bone marrow, cartilage, fused, hinge joints, legumes, ligaments, precise, spinal cord, sutures, swivel joints, tendons, vertebrates
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