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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
Community Workers
Informational (nonfiction), 84 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Classify Information
Phonological Awareness Blend Phonemes
Phonics Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Punctuation
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary
Have you ever stopped to think about the people who work and help in the community each day? Community Workers provides readers with a brief overview of familiar helpers in the community, including doctor, firefighter, and mail carrier. Engaging puzzle format encourages the reader to use clues to guess the community worker being described.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in nonfiction text
  • Classify information
  • Blend phonemes
  • Identify and use the consonant digraph sh
  • Understand and identify question marks
  • Understand and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: are, he, in, is, she, this, who
  • Content words: community, deliver, doctor, firefighter, healthy, hose, mail carrier, safe, thermometer, workers
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