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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Samson: A Horse Story
Narrative (fiction), 2,142 words, Level U (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics Pronouns
Word Work Homophones

Book Summary

Samson: A Horse Story is written from the point of view of a ten-year-old girl's journal entries. She is devastated when her parents inherit a farm and she has to leave her friends to stay there for the summer. Not until she secretly reads her deceased aunt's journal does she realize the reason she's there. She grows to appreciate the farm as she becomes attached to Samson, the horse that was left to her. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
  • Analyze characters in text
  • Identify and understand the use of pronouns
  • Recognize the difference between homophones there and their

Vocabulary

  • Content words: bridle, coop, family tree, galloping, graze, groomed, manure, pointers, realized, reins, saddle horn, stirrup, tend to, trough
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