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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell J
Reading Recovery 17
DRA 18
Can You Say Pterodactyl?
Humorous (fiction), 393 words, Level J (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Story Elements
Phonological Awareness Long Vowels
Phonics Vowel Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Antonyms

Book Summary
Can You Say Pterodactyl? is about a young pterodactyl who cannot say her own name. She encounters a duck and a wren that want to meet her and become her friends. She tries to say her name and scares the animals that she's trying to meet. Then an owl helps her learn to pronounce her name, and she successfully introduces herself.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
  • Identify story elements
  • Discriminate long /e/ sound in words
  • Associate ea and ee letter combinations with the long /e/ sound in words
  • Recognize and understand the use of quotation marks
  • Identify and understand antonyms

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: she, said, this
  • Content words: barely, blasted, bony, breath, brightly, burped, creature, friend, leathery, murmur, pronounce, pterodactyl, rare, rude, scrunch, tongue
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