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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell H
Reading Recovery 13-14
DRA 14
Earth's Water
Informational (nonfiction), 232 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Initial Sound
Phonics R-Controlled Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
Earth’s Water provides an informative lesson on water. The book reviews where water comes from, the different forms of water, and the water cycle. The book concludes with information on water conservation. Clear, easy-to-understand photographs enhance the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting life experiences and using prior knowledge to understand text
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Manipulate initial sounds in words
  • Locate and read words that contain r-controlled vowels when the vowel e precedes the r
  • Locate and categorize nouns
  • Understand and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: are, of, when
  • Content words: clouds, Earth, evaporation, freezes, gas, invisible, liquid, melts, polluted, rain, solid, water
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