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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
How Is the Weather Today?
Realistic (fiction), 180 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Identify Setting
Phonological Awareness Segment Onset and Rime
Phonics Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary

How is the Weather Today? introduces readers to various types of weather that occur during each season. The text discusses typical activities and clothing for each type of weather. Supportive illustrations accompany the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualization to understand and remember factual information
  • Identify characteristics of setting
  • Segment onset from rime
  • Locate and read words that begin and end with the /ch/ sound
  • Locate and read nouns in text
  • Identify and form compound words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: how, know, me, say, want, will
  • Content words: blow, clothes, cold, fall, hot, icy, important, rain, seasons, showers, snow, spring, stormy, summer, today, warm, weather, weatherman, windy, winter
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