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Miltie Math-head Takes the Mound
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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell T
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Miltie Math-head Takes the Mound
Realistic (fiction), 2,479 words, Level Y (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics Dash
Word Work Similes

Book Summary
Miltie Math-head Takes the Mound is a continuation of Miltie Math-head, in which Milton leads his football team to victory using his mathematical abilities. This event causes Miltie's ego to swell and his teammates to overestimate his abilities to lead their baseball team to victory in the final tournament. Luckily, his friend Dan helps him realize his true strengths before it's too late. Illustrations support the text.

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

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand the text
  • Analyze characters in the text
  • Understand the use of a dash as punctuation
  • Identify similes

Vocabulary

  • Content words: abysmal, calculations, computations, decimals, dibs, earned-run average, ego, lowest common denominator, mound, ratio, statistician, substitution, thousandth place, ump, umpire, windup
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