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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Get Moving! All About Muscles
Informational (nonfiction), 2,002 words, Level U (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Ask and answer questions
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Adverbs
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
What do you and a bodybuilder have in common? Over 600 muscles! Yours may not be as big or as strong, but they’re there. This nonfiction book explains the three types of muscles, and the functions of each including the cardiac muscle. A detailed illustration explains how an electric charge causes the heart to contract. Photographs enhance the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand and remember informational text
  • Identify main ideas and details
  • Recognize adverbs and the verbs they describe
  • Understand and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • Content words: Achilles tendon, deltoid, fascicles, gastrocnemius, gluteus maximus, hamstring, involuntary muscles, masseter, myofibril, quadriceps, sartorius, stapedius, temporalis, trapezius
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