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Grade K
Fountas & Pinnell A
Reading Recovery 1
DRA A-1
What Lives Here?
Descriptive (nonfiction), 40 words, Level A (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Classify Information
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonants
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Periods
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

What Lives Here? provides an overview of several animals, including insects, amphibians, and mammals, and their homes. Photographs establish one-to-one correspondence and support readers who are learning to look at print.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
  • Classify information
  • Discriminate initial sound /h/
  • Identify initial consonant Hh
  • Recognize and understand the use of a period at the end of a sentence
  • Identify, write, and correctly use high-frequency words a, here, and lives

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: a, here, lives
  • Content words: bear, bee, child, deer, fish, frog, worm
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