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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
The Contest
Realistic (fiction), 107 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Segment Onset and Rime
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Position Words

Book Summary
Andy and Jay are eating watermelon outside. They decide to have a watermelon seed-spitting contest. Whose seeds will go the farthest? Supportive pictures, repetitive phrases, and high-frequency words support early readers.

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

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
  • Sequence events
  • Segment onset and rime
  • Identify initial consonant blend st
  • Recognize and understand the use of quotation marks
  • Recognize, understand, and use position words

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: away, both, have, now, said, than, went
  • Content words: bench, break, contest, farther, farthest, mine, next, past, seed, spit
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