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Anansi and the Talking Watermelon
Level O
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| Reading A-Z Level |
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| Grade |
2 |
| Fountas & Pinnell |
M |
| Reading Recovery |
20 |
| DRA |
28 |
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Anansi and the Talking Watermelon
Folktale (fiction), 876 words,
Level O (Grade 2)
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Lesson Objectives |
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| Reading Strategy |
Make, revise, and confirm predictions |
| Comprehension |
Analyze Character |
| Grammar and Mechanics |
Verbs |
| Word Work |
Multiple Syllable Words |
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Book Summary |
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Anansi is a clever spider who often tricks his friends with his clever tongue. In this retelling, while Anansi is trapped inside a watermelon, he tricks Possum into believing that the watermelon can talk. Possum proceeds to bring the watermelon to King Bear, who is outraged and throws the fruit, which frees Anansi when it lands and cracks open. Illustrations support the text.
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About the Lesson |
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Targeted Reading Strategy
- Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Objectives
- Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
- Analyze characters
- Identify interesting verbs in text
- Recognize multiple-syllable words
Vocabulary
Content words: absurd, acres, Eureka, furiously, Gopher, gorged, grizzly, oddity, pondered, Possum, Raccoon, realizing, rejoiced, salivated, shimmied, skittered, Squirrel, to and fro, treacherous, unison
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