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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
Nothing for Father's Day
Realistic (fiction), 134 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Phonological Awareness Medial Sound
Phonics Long Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Plural Nouns
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

In Nothing for Father's Day, a dad who has received less than useful gifts the previous Father's Day tells his family that he wants nothing for Father's Day. The family honors his request but gives him something special that doesn't come in a box. The picture-to-text correspondence and repetitive text patterns contribute to the readers' enjoyment of the story.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions while reading
  • Understand cause-and-effect relationships in the text
  • Discriminate medial long vowel sounds
  • Read CVCe long /a/ words
  • Identify and form regular plural nouns
  • Use high-frequency words have and has

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: has, have, look, said, them
  • Content words: computer game, crash, enough, everyone, socks, ties
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