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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell S
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
The Transcontinental Railroad
Informational (nonfiction), 2,016 words, Level X (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Adverbs
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary
Before the Transcontinental Railroad, travel across the American West was treacherous at best. And building the railroad was itself a dangerous task filled with battles, injury, and even death. This book recounts the difficulties in building the railroad and the amazing changes that the trains brought to the West.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Identify sequence adverbs and proper comma placement
  • Understand and use compound words

Vocabulary

  • Content words: agonizingly, ballast, discrimination, efficient, engineers, foremen, infamous, ties
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