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Grade K
Fountas & Pinnell C
Reading Recovery 3-4
DRA 3-4
We Count
Factual Description (nonfiction), 51 words, Level C (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Visualize
Comprehension Classify Information
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonants
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Capitalization
Word Work High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

We Count offers students the opportunity to count by ones and tens to 100 using pictures of spiders, slugs, and various types of insects. Illustrations and repetitive text support students as they read. (Note: Bugs is a generic term that is often used to refer to various types of insects. Spiders are referred to as arachnids and slugs are mollusks.)

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
  • Classify information
  • Discriminate initial /k/ sound
  • Identify initial consonant Cc
  • Recognize and understand the use of capital letters at the beginning of a sentence
  • Identify, write, and correctly use high-frequency words I and you

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: can, I, we, you
  • Content words: ants, beetles, bugs, butterflies, count, crickets, fleas, flies, grubs, hungry, ladybugs, slugs, spiders, ten
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