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Bonk's New Bike
Fantasy (fiction), 323 words, Level J (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Text to text connections
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Phonological Awareness Manipulate Medial Sounds
Phonics R-Controlled Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Verb Endings
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

Bonk dreams of a new bike, but he doesn't have enough money to buy it. To earn the money, he decides to start a dog-walking business. Bonks friends volunteer to help him, but he wants to put all the money toward his new bike. Bonk's business is very successful, and in the end he is forced to ask his friends for help. Like true friends, they all work together to make Bonk's dream come true.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Text to text connections

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making text-to-text connections in the Monster series to understand the story
  • Identify cause-and-effect relationships
  • Orally substitute medial sounds
  • Locate and read words that contain the ea vowel digraph and make the long /e/ sound
  • Locate and read verbs with -ing endings
  • Read high-frequency words in text

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: new, their, will
  • Content words: bike, business, dreams, handlebars, money, piggybank, pennies, people, spokes, walking
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