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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell S
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Grandpa Smoke Jumper
Realistic (fiction), 2,559 words, Level X (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics Verbs and Direct Objects
Word Work Personification

Book Summary
Andy prepares himself for a boring vacation with his grandparents when, on the way there, his mother claims that Grandpa used to parachute out of planes and fight wildfires. Andy doubts her tale, but when he finds an old photograph and encourages Grandpa to tell his amazing story, he changes his mind about what his grandparents can do.

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

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions before and during reading
  • Analyze a character’s words, thoughts, feelings, and actions
  • Understand and identify direct objects
  • Recognize and write personifications

Vocabulary

  • Content words: abruptly, adorned, barrage, briefed, diminishing, donned, emphatically, extinguishing, flabbergasted, grueling, igniting, instinctively, maneuvered, plummeting, preoccupied, pursed, relayed, resilience
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