Polly Gets Out

Reading Strategy	Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension	Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness	Final Consonants
Phonics	Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics	Pronouns
Word Work	Position Words

Book Summary

Polly the parrot gets out of her cage. She flies all over the neighborhood and sees many new things. Will she ever find her way back home? Supportive pictures, repetitive phrases, and high-frequency words make this book easy for 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
Discriminate final /t/ sound
Identify final consonant Tt
Recognize and understand the use of pronouns
Recognize, understand, and use position words

Vocabulary

High-frequency words: back, her, home, into, over, out, saw, she, some, the
Content words: cage, children, flew, flowers, houses, path, playground, Polly, pond, safe, trees

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