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Grade K
Fountas & Pinnell B
Reading Recovery 2
DRA 2
Near and Far Away
Concept book (nonfiction), 36 words, Level B (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Categorize Information
Phonological Awareness Initial Sound
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization
Word Work Antonyms

Book Summary

This simple leveled reader uses students' favorite subject--animals--to illustrate a crucial spatial relationship. Each animal is shown close-up and then farther away in its natural habitat. The simple, patterned text and beautiful photographs ensure that this book educates while it entertains.

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
  • Categorize information
  • Discriminate initial sounds
  • Identify words that start with Ff
  • Initial capitalization
  • Recognize and use antonyms/opposites

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: is, that, this
  • Content words: away, deer, far, lion, near, owl, wolf
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