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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell D
Reading Recovery 5-6
DRA 6
Where Animals Live
Informational (nonfiction), 116 words, Level D (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Ask and answer questions
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Blend Sounds
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization and Punctuation
Word Work Categorize Words

Book Summary

Where Animals Live presents various animals and the places in which they live. The text and illustrations provide a way to introduce early readers to the concept of habitats.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
  • Identify the main idea and supporting details
  • Blend sounds in words heard orally
  • Identify words with r-family blends
  • Apply sentence punctuation
  • Categorize words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: these, this, some
  • Content words: bat, bear, bird, burrow, cave, deer, fox, frog, house, monkey, ocean, octopus, people, pond, prairie dog, tree, turtle, whale, woodchuck, woods
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