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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Yellow Brick Roadies
Adventure (fiction), 2,171 words, Level U (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics Compound Sentences
Word Work Idioms

Book Summary
Yellow Brick Roadies recounts another adventure for Miguel as he dives into one of the Great Gallardo's books. This time, as he travels into the Land of Oz with two of his friends, they become the lion, the tin woodsman, and the scarecrow. Together they must work to help Dorothy get to the wizard of Oz, and Miguel must find the courage to stand up to his friends and assert what he knows to be right. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
  • Analyze characters in the text
  • Analyze characters in the text
  • Recognize and understand the use of idioms

Vocabulary

  • Content words: break dancing, contraption, courage, cowered, cruelty, furrowed, gorge, guilt, hovered, inline skating, looming, mission, Oz, ranting, regal, resourceful, slingshot, snicker, toxic, winced
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