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Fountas & Pinnell D
Reading Recovery 5-6
DRA 6
Maria's Halloween
Realistic (fiction), 77 words, Level D (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Story Elements
Phonological Awareness Final Consonants
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Proper Nouns
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary

Maria's Halloween tells about a family's night of trick-or-treating. The story uses familiar vocabulary, high-frequency words, and repetitive text to support beginning readers. Students will enjoy the surprise at the end of the story.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
  • Identify the story elements of characters and setting
  • Discriminate final /k/ sound
  • Identify consonant blend tr
  • Recognize and understand names as proper nouns
  • Understand the order of letters in the alphabet

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: at, for, go, look, or, the, you
  • Content words: ghost, Halloween, pumpkin, spider, treat, trick
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