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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 4
Fountas & Pinnell Q
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Sister Sleuth and the Silver Blaze
Adventure (fiction), 2,117 words, Level V (Grade 4)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Draw Conclusions
Grammar and Mechanics Compound Sentences
Word Work Synonyms and Antonyms

Book Summary

Sister Sleuth and the Silver Blaze recounts another one of Miguel's adventures as he dives into another Great Gallardo book. In this adventure, he travels into the past, becoming Mr. Watson and solving a mystery with Sherlock Holmes. In a surprise twist, he gets unexpected help from someone he knows. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
  • Draw conclusions using context clues
  • Identify compound sentences in the text
  • Recognize and use synonyms and antonyms; identify antonyms and synonyms using a thesaurus

Vocabulary

  • Content words: carriage, colleague, depression, detour, disguised, Gypsies, memoirs, moor, obsessed, overactive, sleuth, tracks, tweed, vaguely, villa
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