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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell J
Reading Recovery 17
DRA 18
Let's Make Shapes!
Procedural (nonfiction), 365 words, Level J (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Classify Information
Phonological Awareness Long Vowels
Phonics Long Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Commas
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
Let's Make Shapes is an interactive book that introduces children to geometric shapes. As children learn about these shapes, they discover ways to use the shapes to draw various things, as well as vocabulary for their developing drawing skills.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
  • Classify information
  • Discriminate long /a/ sound in words
  • Identify long /a/ sound combined with silent e
  • Understand the use of commas in a series
  • Understand meaning of content words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: another, around, each, join, many, than, then, thing, use
  • Content words: circle, curved, geometric, half, rectangle, shape, square, straight, triangle
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