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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell D
Reading Recovery 5-6
DRA 6
The Mitten
Humorous (fiction), 74 words, Level D (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Draw Conclusions
Phonological Awareness Syllable Awareness
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

This humorous story retells the traditional Ukrainian wintertime tale of several animals squeezing into a mitten to stay warm. Young children will enjoy the humorous language and predictable ending.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
  • Draw conclusions
  • Clap syllables
  • Identify final consonant t
  • Recognize and understand that nouns are naming words
  • Read, write, and understand the use of high-frequency words he and she

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: after, got, he, into, she, the, too, was, with
  • Content words: ant, bear, blue jay, cold, fox, mitten, rabbit, squash, squeeze, squish, warm
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