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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell D
Reading Recovery 5-6
DRA 6
Caretakers
Informational (nonfiction), 86 words, Level D (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Classify Information
Phonological Awareness Short Vowels
Phonics Short Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Pronouns
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary
All around us, people in our communities take care of different things. What would we do without a road worker, a vet, a dentist, and a police officer? Students will understand that everything, from pets to people to roads, needs care.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand the text
  • Classify information
  • Discriminate the short /i/ vowel sound
  • Associate the letter Ii with the short /i/ vowel sound
  • Recognize pronouns
  • Recognize and read high-frequency words a, is, and this

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: a, he, is, she, this
  • Content words: animals, babies, babysitter, dentist, doctor, firefighters, gardener, people, police officers, road worker, roads, teeth, vet
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