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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
Places Plants and Animals Live
Informational (nonfiction), 100 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Identify Setting
Phonological Awareness Final Consonants
Phonics Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics Plural Nouns
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary
This book introduces students to the various environments of animals and plants on Earth. Animal cards are provided for students to cut apart and place in the appropriate environment in the book. Repetitive phrases and high-frequency words support early readers.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
  • Identify setting
  • Discriminate final sound /s/
  • Identify final consonant Ss
  • Recognize plural nouns
  • List words in alphabetical order

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: all, and, are, be, can, has, in, no, the, very
  • Content words: animals, cold, deserts, flat, grassy, hot, mountains, oceans, plains, plants, rainforests, rivers, salty, steep, tall, trees, tundra, water, wet, world
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