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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
The Lost Dutchman
Adventure (fiction), 3,776 words, Level V (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Identify Character, Setting and Plot
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
The Lost Dutchman is a fictional story about two boys, Billy and Jacob, and their teacher, Mr. Martinez. The boys are learning about Arizona in the 1800s, and in particular the Gold Rush and a legend from that time. However, something goes funny, and the boys and their teacher end up searching for the gold from the legend. All is back to normal when Billy realizes he has just been daydreaming. Or has he?

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 characters, setting, plot, and theme
  • Understand the use of quotation marks in dialogue
  • Understand and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • Content words: ancient, binoculars, burro, canteen, cringe, emerge, exasperated, Gila monster, hydrated, ideal, legendary, mesmerizing, portal, prospector, rearrange, ridge, skeptic, stash, tattered, theory, veer, wash, willingly, whittle
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