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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
Our Camping Trip
Personal Recount (fiction), 150 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy Retell
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Rhyme
Phonics Long Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Verbs
Word Work Contractions

Book Summary

Even students who have never been camping will enjoy this story of a family’s overnight camping trip. Told in first-person point of view and cleverly illustrated by “photographs” taken by the young boy, Our Camping Trip uses simple dialogue and repetitive text to ensure readers’ success.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember a fiction story
  • Sequence story events
  • Identify and produce rhyme
  • Read words with the long /i/ pattern of vowel, consonant, final e
  • Recognize and understand that some words describe actions
  • Understand and form contractions

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: and, to, we
  • Content words: berries, camera, camping, cooking gear, hamburgers, lake, nighttime, picture, sleeping bags, tent, turtle
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