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Reading A-Z Level Level A Books
Grade K
Fountas & Pinnell A
Reading Recovery 1
DRA A-1
In and Out
Realistic (fiction), 31 words, Level A (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Retell
Comprehension Identify Character, Setting and Plot
Phonological Awareness Word Awareness
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization and Punctuation
Word Work Antonyms

Book Summary

Cats, dogs, and cows leap in and then out of a big mud puddle. Next, cows leap in and out of the mud puddle. Readers will delight in what happens when the final visitors, the pigs, jump into the mud.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the strategy of retelling story events while reading to understand the text
  • Identify story elements of characters, setting, and plot
  • Discriminate words in sentences
  • Associate the letter Cc with the /k/ sound
  • Identify when to use capital letters and appropriate ending punctuation in sentences
  • Identify words that are opposites (antonyms

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: go, in, out, the
  • Content words: cats, cows, dogs, mud, pigs
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