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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
Josh Gets Glasses
Realistic (fiction), 183 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Problem and Solution
Phonological Awareness Segment Syllables
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary
In Josh Gets Glasses, a boy named Josh finds out that he needs glasses. Josh is not happy about the prospect of wearing glasses because he's afraid he'll look silly. Josh's eye doctor explains that wearing glasses helps people perform their jobs more successfully and helps children do better in school. In the end, Josh decides that he might like wearing glasses after all.

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 the problem and solution in a story
  • Orally segment words into syllables
  • Read and write L-family blends
  • Locate and categorize nouns
  • Read and understand compound words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: better, help, some, them
  • Content words: airplane pilot, basket, basketball player, buildings, cattle, cowboy, eye doctor, firefighter, fires, friends, glasses, people, police officer, score
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