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The Trouble with English
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| Reading A-Z Level |
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| Grade |
3 |
| Fountas & Pinnell |
O |
| Reading Recovery |
34 |
| DRA |
34 |
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The Trouble with English
Personal Recount (fiction), 1,617 words,
Level S (Grade 3)
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Lesson Objectives |
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| Reading Strategy |
Context clues |
| Comprehension |
Analyze Character |
| Grammar and Mechanics |
Adverbs and Adjectives |
| Word Work |
Idioms |
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Book Summary |
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The Trouble with English is the story of a girl named Ting Yao who moves from China to the United States. The book is a first-person account of her experiences learning English at school. She has many difficulties with the unfamiliar idioms, pronunciations, and spellings of the English language. Ting Yao relates her frustrations with learning this new language but realizes that she will eventually master English.
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About the Lesson |
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Targeted Reading Strategy
Objectives
- Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge
- Analyze a character in the story
- Identify adjectives and adverbs
- Understand, identify, and use idioms
Vocabulary
Content words: certainly, correctly, differently, especially, idiom, incredibly, memorize, pronunciation
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