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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell U-W
Reading Recovery N/A
DRA 50
Satellites
Informational (nonfiction), 1,836 words, Level Z (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Sequence Events
Grammar and Mechanics Articles
Word Work Dictionary Skills

Book Summary
Satellites tells the reader some of the history of artificial satellites. The book also describes various types of satellites, how we use them in our lives, and the future of satellites. Readers learn even more as they view the exceptional photographs.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing important information in text
  • Sequence events
  • Understand and use articles
  • Use a dictionary to look up content words

Vocabulary

  • Content words: artificial satellites, astronomical, astronomical satellites, black holes, bus, communication satellites, Earth station, eavesdrop, environmental satellites, evolution, galaxies, GPS, gravity, high-tech, infrared, innovative, light rays, Low Earth Orbit, meteorologists, military spy satellite, navigational satellites, observational, orbits, payload, Polar Orbit, solar energy, weather satellites
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