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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell D
Reading Recovery 5-6
DRA 6
Getting Around the City
Realistic (fiction), 83 words, Level D (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Compare and Contrast
Phonological Awareness Medial Sound
Phonics Short Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work Categorize Words

Book Summary
Everyone in the family uses a different mode of transportation to get where they are going. Mom uses the car, while Grandpa takes a taxi. The story ends with a mode of transportation almost anyone can enjoy.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
  • Compare and contrast
  • Discriminate medial vowel sounds
  • Associate the letter Uu with the short /u/ vowel sound
  • Recognize naming words
  • Categorize words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: a, go, goes, he, I, my, on, she, the, to
  • Content words: airport, bike, boat, bus, car, ferry, house, office, school, skateboard, store, subway, taxi, walk, work
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