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Grade 1
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Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
City Animals
Informational (nonfiction), 109 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Blend Phonemes
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Verbs
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary

City Animals is an informative book that introduces readers to animals that may be found in cities. Students will read about unusual city animals, such as hawks and opossums and animals with which they are more familiar, such as dogs and squirrels. The repetitive text pattern is illustrated with photographs.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Blend phonemes to say words
  • Identify and read words with s-family blends
  • Recognize verbs
  • Categorize content words related to animals

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: live, they
  • Content words: animals, city, dogs, ducks, geese, hawks, mice, opossums, pigeons, raccoons, squirrels
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