Fruit Level A
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 31

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My Hair
I Can
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My Face
My Body
Getting Dressed
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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

WORKSHEETS FOR
FRUIT
Worksheets

LEVEL A
BENCHMARK BOOKS
Vegetables
I Go

OTHER PRINT OPTIONS
Wordless Book

Book Summary
This informational text introduces students to the printed vocabulary that names examples of nutritious foods. Students may be surprised to find the tomato, which is a large berry, included alongside lemons, apples, and bananas. Repeated high-frequency words reinforce fluency and support the decoding of new vocabulary.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Visualize information from the book
• Classify information
• Identify words that rhyme
• Associate the letter Tt with the sound /t/
• Understand that some words name people, places, and things
• Categorize words

Materials

• Book -- Fruit (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Classify information, rhyme 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: this, is, a
• Content words: cherry, pear, banana, tomato, apple, orange, lemon, fruit