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Grade K
Fountas & Pinnell A
Reading Recovery 1
DRA A-1
Big
Concept book (nonfiction), 24 words, Level aa (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Compare and Contrast
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonants
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work Antonyms

Book Summary
What's the biggest thing a young reader can think of? A house? A tree? A plane? A dinosaur? They are all featured in this adorable book Big, the companion book to Little. Repeated high-frequency words assist in decoding, and new vocabulary is introduced with one-to-one picture correspondence.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in a nonfiction text
  • Compare and contrast information
  • Identify the /b/ sound
  • Associate the letter Bb with the /b/ sound
  • Recognize naming words (nouns)
  • Recognize opposites (antonyms)

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: a, big
  • Content words: bus, car, dinosaur, dog, elephant, house, plane, tree
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