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Up and Down Level A
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 24

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

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 goes up must come down. The book Up and Down illustrates this concept to students using familiar objects. The pictures, high-frequency words, and repetitive text support beginning readers as they read.

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
  • Identify rhyming words
  • Identify words with the initial Dd sound
  • Recognize and understand the use of a period at the end of a sentence
  • Recognize, write, and understand the use of high-frequency words go and goes

Materials

  • Book -- Up and Down (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Main idea and details, initial consonant Dd, periods worksheets

    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: down, go, goes, up .
  • Content words: dog, eyes, frog, hands