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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell S
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
What Makes You, You?
Informational (nonfiction), 1,960 words, Level X (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Introducing Phrases
Word Work Suffixes

Book Summary
The text provides a summary of the history of genetics and the results of studies conducted by Gregor Mendel. It explains how some features are inherited and some are acquired. Readers learn about dominant and recessive traits and how to use a Punnett square to determine the probability of inheriting a particular characteristic.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Connect to prior knowledge to remember information in text
  • Identify main ideas and supporting details
  • Identify introductory words and phrases
  • Use suffixes -ive, -itive, and -ative

Vocabulary

  • Content words: acquire, chromosomes, domesticate, dominant, DNA, genetics, heredity, genes, override, recessive
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