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Grade 2
Fountas & Pinnell M
Reading Recovery 20
DRA 28
Three Little Pigs: The Wolf's Story
Fantasy (fiction), 743 words, Level O (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Self-monitor
Comprehension Compare and Contrast
Grammar and Mechanics Paragraph Formation
Word Work Descriptive Words

Book Summary
This retelling of the The Three Little Pigs is told from the wolf's point of view. Readers will sympathize with the homeless, freezing wolf as he suffers a cold and can't stop sneezing. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Self-monitor

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of self-monitoring
  • Compare and contrast this retelling with the classic story
  • Understand paragraph formation
  • Identify descriptive words and the nouns they describe

Vocabulary

  • Content words: delirious, desperate, familiar, frostbitten, inherited, modern, misunderstanding, ordeal, pity, pleaded, quaint, sapped, scurried, sturdy, swine, teetered, unconscious, vegetarian, village
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