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Reading A-Z Level Level J Books
Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell J
Reading Recovery 17
DRA 18
Changes
Personal Narrative (fiction), 398 words, Level J (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Make Inferences
Phonological Awareness Long Vowels
Phonics Vowel Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Pronouns
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary

Changes is a story about some events that occur in a young girl's life. She tells about difficult feelings related to losing her cat, having a friend move away, starting a new school year, and more. Each of these difficult situations eventually provides a new opportunity for her, and she discovers that change is just part of life.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to make meaning from text
  • Understand making inferences
  • Discriminate long /a/ sound in words
  • Recognize and read vowel digraph ay words
  • Identify and use common pronouns
  • Identify and read compound words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: again, because, come, has, have, here, of, some, that, this, was, when
  • Content words: about, anywhere, butterflies, caterpillars, changing, downtown, everything, mountains, pumpkin, sometimes
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