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My Body 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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MORE LEVEL A
LEVELED READERS

My Dog
Bird Goes Home
Fruit
My Room
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

WORKSHEETS FOR
MY BODY
Worksheets

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

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Book Summary
My Body introduces students to the print vocabulary for the names of familiar body parts. The photographs encourage picture-to-text connections, while the repeated sentence pattern ensures early readers' success. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Connect life experience and use prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Compare and contrast
  • Identify rhyme
  • Identify words with initial consonant b
  • Recognize nouns as naming words
  • Categorize

Materials

  • Book - My Body (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Bb Alphabet Flashcard
  • Compare and Contrast, Initial Consonant B, Categorization worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable.)

Vocabulary

  • High-frequency words: my, this, is
  • Content words: foot, leg, belly, chest, head, arm, hand, body