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Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell K
Reading Recovery 18
DRA 20
Fantastic Flying Machines
Informational (nonfiction), 457 words, Level L (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonics Vowel Y
Grammar and Mechanics Proper Nouns
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary

Fantastic Flying Machines is an informational book about the history behind the human flight. Photographs and illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
  • Identify main idea and supporting details
  • Understand the use of y as a vowel
  • Recognize proper nouns
  • Identify and create compound words

Vocabulary

  • Content words: blimp, cargo, hang glider, helicopter, hot-air balloon, jet engine, parachutes, propeller, space shuttle, troops
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