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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell S
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Meeting Mrs. Pierce
Realistic (fiction), 3,027 words, Level X (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Fact Opinion
Grammar and Mechanics Punctuation
Word Work Context Clues

Book Summary
Charlotte's mother is secretly involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement, even though Charlotte's father objects to it. When Charlotte is inspired by her mother and another suffragist, Mrs. Pierce, to have a protest at her school, Charlotte puts her mother's suffrage work in jeopardy, yet she sparks the spirit and forges the ties that will allow her to vote someday herself.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge while reading
  • Identify fact and opinion
  • Understand and use punctuation in dialogue
  • Understand and use context clues

Vocabulary

  • Content words: afoot, beleaguered, brownstones, corsets, dawdle, gadding, mentholatum, namesake, paddy wagon, pestering, prejudices, ratification, serviceable, suffrage, unseemly, vaudeville
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