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My Dog
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He Runs
Baby Animals
In and Out
My Hair
I Can
Going Places
My Face
My Body
Getting Dressed
Maria Goes to School
Maria Counts Pumpkins
We Can Make Sounds
Hot and Cold
What Lives Here?
What I Like
Spring Weather
Up and Down
Mom and I
Pond Animals
Opposites
All Kinds of Faces

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READING A-Z LEVEL A
Grade K
Fountas
& Pinnell
A
Reading
Recovery
1
DRA A-1

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Baby Animals Level A
Text Type: Nonfiction Word Count: 32

Lesson Parts
1) Before Reading
2) During Reading
3) After Reading
4) Build Skills
5) Build Fluency
6) Extend the Reading
7) Assessment

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Book Summary
What child--or what adult, for that matter--can resist the charm of a puppy, a lion cub, or a lamb? Simple and adorable photos accompany the repeated text patterns. While new vocabulary such as foal and kid may challenge students, the high-interest subject will keep them reading.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the strategy of asking and answering questions to make meaning from text
  • Main idea and details
  • Discriminate initial sound /k/
  • Associate the letter Kk with the sound /k/
  • Understand that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with some form of punctuation
  • Understand words for baby animals

Materials

  • Book -- Baby Animals (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Main idea and details, picture cards, capitalization and punctuation worksheets
  • Shoe box with a picture of a kitten on the lid and a slit made in the lid so students can put in pictures
  • Picture cards made from the picture cards worksheet
  • Word journal (optional)

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: this, is, a
  • Content words: kitten, puppy, chick, cub, calf, kid, lamb, foal


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