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Monsters on Wheels
Fantasy (fiction), 291 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Phonological Awareness Segment Onset and Rime
Phonics VCe Long Vowel Patterns
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Synonyms

Book Summary

The four Monsters love their wheels. They ride their bikes, skateboards, Rollerblades, and unicycles all over. But then winter comes, and they have to put their wheels away. They go shopping, and Lurk decides to buy a shovel so they can get rid of the snow on the trail and ride their wheels again.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
  • Identify cause-and-effect relationships
  • Discriminate and segment onset and rime
  • Identify the CVCe pattern in words
  • Recognize and use quotation marks
  • Recognize and use synonyms

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: are, love, no, there, they, when
  • Content words: helmets, love, Rollerblades, skateboard, snowboard, snowflakes, unicycle
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