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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell G
Reading Recovery 11-12
DRA 12
Maria Joins the Team
Realistic (fiction), 181 words, Level G (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Identify Character, Setting and Plot
Phonological Awareness Segment and Blend Phonemes
Phonics Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Content Vocabulary

Book Summary

In this story Maria is asked to join a baseball team. She accepts the invitation and is excited about being a part of the team. However, at school her friend Amos gives her an invitation to his birthday party. The party is on the same day as Maria’s baseball game. Maria has a decision to make. She must decide if she is going to be a good team member and play in the game or go to the birthday party.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making predictions and then confirming or revising them when reading realistic fiction stories
  • Identify the attributes of characters and settings in a realistic fiction story
  • Blend individual sounds into words that are segmented
  • Identify and read words that begin and end with the consonant diagraph ch
  • Understand that quotation marks are used to identify speakers’ words
  • Understand and read content vocabulary related to baseball

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: come, asks, says, should, could
  • Content words: balloon, baseball, birthday, catch, coach, family, game, mitt, night, party, school, shortstop, team, Tuesday
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