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Success Stories
Level Z
Benchmark Books
| Reading A-Z Level |
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| Grade |
5 |
| Fountas & Pinnell |
U-W |
| Reading Recovery |
N/A |
| DRA |
50 |
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Success Stories
Biography (nonfiction), 2,678 words,
Level Z (Grade 5)
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Lesson Objectives |
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| Reading Strategy |
Connect to prior knowledge |
| Comprehension |
Compare and Contrast |
| Grammar and Mechanics |
Adverbs |
| Word Work |
Homophones |
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Book Summary |
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Success Stories is a collection of biographies of three famous immigrants to the United States: Albert Einstein, Gloria Estefan, and Dikembe Mutombo. They came to the United States under very different circumstances. All three have made enormous contributions in their particular areas of expertise: science, music, and sports.
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About the Lesson |
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Targeted Reading Strategy
- Connect to prior knowledge
Objectives
- Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand and remember information in text
- Compare and contrast biographical texts
- Understand and identify adverbs and adverbial phrases
- Identify and use homophones
Vocabulary
Content words: advocate, anti-Semitism, debut, determination, dictator, disarmament, emigrate, exiles, fluently, ghetto, humanitarian, immunization, legacies, pacifist, physics, potential, refuge, religious oppression, repertoire, relativity, speculation, stature, tyranny, Zionism
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