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Reading A-Z Level
Grade K
Fountas & Pinnell C
Reading Recovery 3-4
DRA 3-4
Tools
Informational (nonfiction), 77 words, Level C (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Retell
Comprehension Classify Information
Phonological Awareness Initial Sound
Phonics Sound Symbol Relationship
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary
Tools is about familiar tools that help us work. The picture-to-text correspondence helps readers learn the names of various tools and understand their functions. On the last page of the book, readers are challenged to identify additional tools.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the strategy of pausing to retell to clarify information in text
  • Classify information
  • Discriminate initial sounds
  • Associate the letter Tt with the /t/ sound
  • Recognize nouns as naming words
  • Recognize and read high-frequency words it and here

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: a, here, is, it
  • Content words: carrying, cutting, digging, everywhere, hammer, knife, pencil, pounding, rake, raking, shovel, tools, wheelbarrow, work, writing
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