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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell F
Reading Recovery 9-10
DRA 10
White House Pets
Informational (nonfiction), 146 words, Level F (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Segment Syllables
Phonics Vowel Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Plural Nouns
Word Work Categorize Words

Book Summary
The residents of the White House include not only presidents and their families, but also their pets. Students will learn that the White House has been home to not only dogs and cats, but farm animals, woodland creatures, and even an alligator.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand informational text
  • Understand and identify main ideas and details
  • Segment words into syllables
  • Associate vowel digraphs with the long /e/ sound
  • Read and write the plural form of some nouns
  • Sort content vocabulary words into categories

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: lived, they, went
  • Content words: alligator, bears, birds, cats, daughter, dogs, elephants, garden, goats, grandchildren, grass, hippo, horses, lions, pets, president, raccoon, sheep, snake, squirrel, tiger, White House, zoo
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