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Getting Ready for School
Informational (nonfiction), 99 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Rhyme
Phonics Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary

Students everywhere will relate to this simple chapter book about getting ready for the first day of school. Photographs of children from around the world performing tasks such as buying supplies, getting dressed, and going to school will help students make text-to-self connections.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting life experiences and using prior knowledge to understand informational text
  • Identify the main idea of the book and find supporting details
  • Identify and produce rhyme
  • Associate consonant digraph ch with the phonetic element /ch/
  • Sequence and capitalize days of the week
  • Understand and form compound words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: some, the, they, to, with
  • Content words: backpacks, breakfast, everywhere, friends, Monday, paper, pencils, Sunday, teeth
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