Gordon Finds His Way

Reading Strategy	Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension	Problem and Solution
Phonological Awareness	Blend Onset and Rime
Phonics	Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics	Quotation Marks
Word Work	Often Confused Words

Book Summary

Anyone who has ever been lost will understand how Gordon feels on the first day at his new school. He knows he is supposed to go to music class, but he can’t remember how to get there. However, Gordon’s a resourceful little guy who asks for directions and then follows them! An easily recognizable problem together with a simple solution makes this an excellent book for introducing the concepts of problem/solution and direction.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

Use the reading strategy of making predictions and then revising or confirming them to to understand and remember a fiction story
Identify problem and solution
Blend onset and rime
Associate nt, nd, and nk with the phonetic elements /nt/, /nd/, and /nk/
Understand that quotation marks are used to identify a speaker’s words
Understand and use often-confused words

Vocabulary

High-frequency words: go, he, on
Content words: art, bell, class, classroom, first, floor, Gordon, hall, hurried, left, Mr. Lewis, music, new, right, smiled, stairs, thanked, worried

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