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I Can
Realistic (fiction), 24 words, Level A (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Rhyme
Phonics Word Families
Grammar and Mechanics Verbs
Word Work Categorize Words

Book Summary

What can your early readers do? The children in I Can can hop, jump, ride, and play. Every child can do something. The repeated text patterns, high-frequency words, and familiar verbs in this text give students another accomplishment to add to their list: reading.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Listen for rhyme
  • Read words from CVC short /a/ word families
  • Recognize that some words name actions (verbs)
  • Categorize words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: can, I
  • Content words: climb, crawl, hop, jump, play, ride, run, swing