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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell J
Reading Recovery 17
DRA 18
Darby's Birthday Party
Personal Narrative (fiction), 350 words, Level J (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Problem and Solution
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonant Digraph
Phonics Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
Darby's Birthday Party is about a dog named Darby who is going to be 15 years old. His human friends, Mia and Mike, decide to have a special birthday party for Darby, but they are not sure where it should take place. They consider many locations and finally settle on a place that is Darby's favorite--the zoo.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to make sense of text
  • Identify problem and solution as story elements
  • Discriminate initial consonant digraph /sh/ sound in words
  • Identify words with initial consonant digraph sh
  • Recognize and understand the use of quotation marks
  • Alphabetize content vocabulary words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: away, for, have, him, of, they, two, very, was, we, what, where, will, would
  • Content words: beach, birthday, favorite, Friday, park, party, special, unhappy, woods
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