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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
What Is in the Box?
Realistic (fiction), 121 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Make Inferences
Phonological Awareness Final Consonants
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Nouns
Word Work Alliteration

Book Summary
In What Is in the Box?, a boy takes a box to be mailed. Find out where the box goes and what happens to it along the way. Repetitive text, supportive pictures, and high-frequency words make this book perfect for emerging readers.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand the story
  • Make inferences
  • Discriminate final sound /n/
  • Identify final consonant Nn
  • Identify and classify nouns
  • Recognize alliteration with the /b/ sound

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: and, big, box, brown, gets, goes, what
  • Content words: dropped, knocks, mail, placed, smashed, Special Delivery, stamped, torn, tossed
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