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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
What's for Dinner?
Humorous (fiction), 133 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Retell
Comprehension Problem and Solution
Phonological Awareness Initial Blends
Phonics Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary
Giraffe is hungry, but he is tired of eating leaves. How will Giraffe solve his problem? He decides to try to eat foods other animals eat. Humorous, supportive pictures and repetitive phrases allow early readers to be successful.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand the story
  • Identify the story elements of problem and solution
  • Discriminate initial consonant blend sound /tr/
  • Identify initial consonant blend tr
  • Recognize and locate quotation marks
  • List words in alphabetical order

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: always, but, don’t, eat, just, like, want, very
  • Content words: bear, bending, bird, delicious, frog, giraffe, grass, hanging, hungry, leaves, otter, tongue, tried
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