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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
City Places
Informational (nonfiction), 118 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Sound Discrimination
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization and Punctuation
Word Work Question Words

Book Summary

City Places is a nonfiction book about various places typically found in a city and what people do in those places. Detailed illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to make sense of the text
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Discriminate ending sounds
  • Identify and read words with L-family blends
  • Capitalize and punctuate question sentences
  • Identify question words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: is, this, what
  • Content words: city, park, parking garage, place, skyscraper, stadium, station, store, zoo
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