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Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell M
Reading Recovery 20
DRA 28
The Buffalo Hunt
Historical (fiction), 798 words, Level N (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Conjunctions
Word Work Plural Endings

Book Summary
Wind-in-the-Treetops is going on his first buffalo hunt with the men of his tribe. This short narrative describes the preparation for and the events of the hunt, and what the hunt means for the family. The illustrations bring the story to life.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing
  • Identify main ideas and details
  • Identify conjunctions used in the text
  • Understand plural nouns with -s and -es endings

Vocabulary

  • Content words: buffalo, cautiously, envied, medicine lodge, medicine men, preparing, sacred, stampede, surrounded, swiftest
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