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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell I
Reading Recovery 15-16
DRA 16
Mike's Good Bad Day
Realistic (fiction), 210 words, Level I (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Phonological Awareness Long Vowels
Phonics Vowel Y
Grammar and Mechanics Suffixes
Word Work Onomatopoeia

Book Summary
Many things go wrong during Mike's day, both at home and at school. Every time something bad happens, someone helps him out. Mike discovers that it makes him feel good when others help him, so he learns to be helpful to others. Pictures support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
  • Identify cause and effect
  • Discriminate final long /e/ vowel sound
  • Identify y as a vowel
  • Recognize and use suffix -ed
  • Identify and locate examples of onomatopoeia

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: bad, good, his, need, said, that, was, you
  • Content words: breakfast, carving, clumsy, festival, library, pumpkin, thanks, tripped, wrong
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