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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell U-W
Reading Recovery N/A
DRA 50
Historic Peacemakers
Informational (nonfiction), 2,150 words, Level Z (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Ask and answer questions
Comprehension Author's Purpose
Grammar and Mechanics Pronunciations
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
Historic Peacemakers highlights six Nobel Peace Prize nominees: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Mairead Corrigan, and Betty Williams. It ends by appealing to readers to find the peacemaker within themselves. Historic photographs support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand informational text
  • Analyze the author’s purpose
  • Understand how to read pronunciations in parentheses
  • Identify and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • Content words: apartheid, boycott, caste, concessions, congregation, discrimination, integrated, leprosy, mediation, prejudice, sari, segregated
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