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Reading A-Z Level
Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell H
Reading Recovery 13-14
DRA 14
Smaller and Smaller
Fantasy (fiction), 206 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Retell
Comprehension Sequence Events
Phonological Awareness Medial Sound
Phonics R-Controlled Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics Quotation Marks
Word Work Synonyms

Book Summary
A group of farm animals notice that their friends appear smaller and smaller as they go to a barn far away. Cow, who believes that each animal has disappeared, is the last to go to the barn. When she gets to the barn, she discovers something unexpected.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand and remember a fiction story
  • Sequence events in a story
  • Manipulate medial sounds in words
  • Read words with r-controlled vowels
  • Recognize and understand the use of quotation marks
  • Identify and use synonyms

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: said, saw, see, she, the, to, too, very, were
  • Content words: bigger, disappeared, farther, goodness, reached, shrinking
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