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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
The Storm
Realistic (fiction), 104 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Blend Phonemes
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary

The Storm takes the reader through the sights and sounds of a coming thunderstorm. The pictures and narrative text heightens the suspense.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to make meaning from text
  • Sequence story events
  • Blend phonemes
  • Identify and read words with Ll-family blends
  • Recognize and understand the use of capital letters at the beginning of a sentence and in proper nouns
  • Place words in alphabetical order

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: around, come, stop
  • Content words: blow, blowing, clouds, crashes, darker, flashes, lightning, loudly, rain, sky, sun, thunder, wildly, winds
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