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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
A Clown Face
How to (nonfiction), 180 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Medial Sound
Phonics VCe Long Vowel Patterns
Grammar and Mechanics Adjectives
Word Work Sequence Words

Book Summary

A Clown Face outlines the steps involved in dressing up to look like a clown. Early readers will enjoy the detailed illustrations that correspond with the repetitive text pattern. They may even be inspired to use the book as a guide to dress up as a clown.

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 medial sounds
  • Read VCe long /a/ vowel words
  • Recognize adjectives
  • Identify words that indicate sequence

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: first, next, then
  • Content words: cheeks, clown, eyebrows, eyelids, face, jacket, mouth, nose, shoes, smile
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