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Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell M
Reading Recovery 20
DRA 28
Anansi and the Talking Watermelon
Folktale (fiction), 876 words, Level O (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics Verbs
Word Work Multiple Syllable Words

Book Summary
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.

About the Lesson
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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