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Grade K
Fountas & Pinnell B
Reading Recovery 2
DRA 2
Bananas Sometimes
Factual Description (nonfiction), 41 words, Level B (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonants
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

This book builds on student imagination by showing a child envisioning everyday objects as made from bananas. Predictable sentence patterns and pictures support the students as they read.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Discriminate initial /l/ sound
  • Identify initial consonant Ll
  • Recognize and understand that nouns are naming words
  • Recognize and write the high-frequency words look, like, and to

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: eat, good, like, look, to
  • Content words: always, bananas, boats, frowns, hands, pencils, smiles, sometimes, spiders, telephone
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