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Grade 1
Fountas & Pinnell E
Reading Recovery 7-8
DRA 8
Country Animals
Informational (nonfiction), 112 words, Level E (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness Initial Consonant Digraph
Phonics Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics Pronouns
Word Work Alphabetizing

Book Summary
This book teaches students about the types of animals that live in the country. Students learn some of the eating habits and activities of these animals. Detailed photographs and repetitive phrases 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 main idea and details
  • Discriminate initial consonant digraph wh
  • Identify initial consonant digraph wh
  • Recognize and use pronoun they
  • List words in alphabetical order

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: do, from, they, what, where, you
  • Content words: animals, country, eat, fields, geese, grains, kinds, live, people, rivers, robins, squirrels
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