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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell D
Reading Recovery 5-6
DRA 6
Community Helpers
Informational (nonfiction), 108 words, Level D (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Blend Phonemes
Phonics Diphthongs
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary
Community Helpers is an informational book that presents photographs of a diverse group of people in various occupations. Most, if not all, of the occupations will be familiar to students. The book helps students understand that many kinds of workers and jobs are important to a community. The repetitive sentence pattern reinforces key vocabulary words.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand ideas and words in the book
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Blend phonemes
  • Associate the letter Cc with the sound /k/
  • Identify nouns
  • Identify, write, and correctly use high-frequency words a and an

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: lives, some, them, this, too
  • Content words: baker, community, construction worker, doctor, firefighter, important, police officer, service, teacher
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