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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
Gaggle, Herd, and Murder
Informational (nonfiction), 129 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Categorize Information
Phonological Awareness Blend Phonemes
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
Readers may have heard about a pack of wolves or a litter of puppies, but do they know which animals make up a gaggle or a murder? In Gaggle, Herd, and Murder, readers learn the meaning of these terms and more. Engaging photographs support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
  • Categorize information
  • Blend phonemes
  • Associate phonetic representation for r-, s-, and l- blends
  • Use and identify collective nouns
  • Understand and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: all, are, have, of, their, they, this
  • Content words: colony, crows, gaggle, gather, geese, groups, herd, humans, jellyfish, murder, neighborhood, pack, pod, smack, sunset, together, whales, wolves, zebras
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