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Food Chain, The
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Glassblowing
Hibernation
How Do They Move?
How Is the Weather Today?
How to Make a Snow Person
In a Chinese Garden
Josh Gets Glasses
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Needs and Wants
Our Camping Trip
Scaredy Crow
Snowstorm, The
Taste This
Three Little Pigs, The
Trucking
Where Is Cub?
White House Pets
Level F Benchmark Books
Many Roads
Monkey to the Top
Serial Books
The Monsters
| Reading A-Z Level |  |
| Grade | 1 |
| Fountas & Pinnell | F |
| Reading Recovery | 9-10 |
| DRA | 10 |
The Food Chain
Informational (nonfiction), 152 words, Level F (Grade 1)
Informational (nonfiction), 152 words, Level F (Grade 1)
Lesson Objectives
| Reading Strategy | Ask and answer questions |
| Comprehension | Sequence Events |
| Phonological Awareness | Blend Phonemes |
| Phonics | Vowel Digraphs |
| Grammar and Mechanics | Punctuation |
| Word Work | Compound Words |
Book Summary
The Food Chain features five items in the food chain: a plant, a grasshopper, a frog, a fish, and a bear. The book describes how each link in the food chain is consumed by the link that follows it. The book concludes with a one-page photo sequence of the parts of the food chain depicted in the book. Clear, easy-to-understand photographs enhance the text.
About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
- Ask and answer questions
Objectives
- Use the strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
- Sequence steps in a process
- Orally blend phonemes in words
- Recognize and read ea digraph words
- Use proper punctuation in sentences
- Locate and read compound words
Vocabulary
- High-frequency words: need, other, they
- Content words: air, animals, chain, fish, food, frog, grasshopper, leaves, plants, soil, sunlight, water
