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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell J
Reading Recovery 17
DRA 18
Riding With Rosa Parks
Historical (fiction), 272 words, Level J (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonants
Phonics Vowel Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary
Riding with Rosa Parks recounts a period in American history when segregation laws denied African-American people equal rights. The story is told from the point of view of a fictitious character, Marissa, who witnesses the bravery Rosa Parks displayed when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. The story provides students with the opportunity to learn how one person can make a difference.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing when reading informational text
  • Sequence events in a story
  • Manipulate initial sounds to produce rhyming words
  • Identify words with ai and ay vowel digraphs
  • identify and use nouns in sentences
  • Identify and use high-frequency vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: like, on, said, some, their, them, was, were
  • Content words: arrested, bus, confused, difference, fair, law, rights, seat, unfair
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