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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
The Case of the Vanishing Anasazi
Mystery (fiction), 3,127 words, Level V (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Story Elements
Grammar and Mechanics Adjectives
Word Work Homophones

Book Summary
While on a field trip to the Anasazi ruins in Colorado, Stanley DeCapers is determined to solve the mystery of the vanishing Anasazi. With a friend's help, he manages to slip away from the group and strike out on his own to search for clues. He meets a mysterious man who helps him learn about how the Anasazi left these dwellings to move to another place. When Stanley asks why they moved, the man tells him "there are some mysteries the sky will never reveal."

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
  • Understand and identify story elements of characters, setting, plot, and theme
  • Understand the use of adjectives with and without commas (coordinate and cumulative)
  • Identify and use homophones

Vocabulary

  • Content words: ancestor, camouflage, descendant, disapproving, disintegrate, drought, kiva, mesa, Native Americans, petroglyph, ruins, summon
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