Bird Goes Home Level A
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 49

Book Summary
The little bird has a long way to go to get back to her nest. She has to cross a city, a farm, mountains, and other obstacles. Touching illustrations accompany a text with repeated sentence patterns to make decoding easier.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions  

Objectives

• Use the strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Sequence story events
• Identify syllables in words
• Associate the letter Bb with the sound /b/
• Recognize capital letters and periods in print
• Understand words associated with position

Materials

• Book -- Bird Goes Home (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence events, initial consonant Bb worksheets
• 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: the, over
• Content words: bird, tree, farm, city, streets, tables, cars, mountains