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The Mystery Twin
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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell T
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
The Mystery Twin
Realistic (fiction), 2,190 words, Level Y (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Make Inferences
Grammar and Mechanics Adverbs
Word Work Apostrophes

Book Summary
When Heather was an infant, she was adopted. Now, at age thirteen, she learns she is a twin. With her family's help, Heather tries to find her twin by placing ads in local and national newspapers. Once the candidates have been narrowed down to three, the family enlists the help of a geneticist to determine which one is The Mystery Twin.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising and confirming questions to understand text
  • Make inferences while reading
  • Understand and identify adverbs
  • Discriminate between apostrophes used as contractions and apostrophes used as possessives

Vocabulary

  • Content words: acquired, anticipated, bleaching, blustery, concisely, identical, indicator, fraternal, override, recite, sibling, traits
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