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City Animals Level E
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 109

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WORKSHEETS FOR
CITY ANIMALS
Worksheets

LEVEL E
BENCHMARK BOOKS
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COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
CITY ANIMALS
Comprehension Quiz
Level E Answer Sheet

OTHER PRINT OPTIONS
Wordless Book



Correlation
READING A-Z LEVEL E
Grade 1
Fountas
& Pinnell
E
Reading
Recovery
7-8
DRA 6-8

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
City Animals is an informative book that introduces readers to animals that may be found in cities. Students will read about unusual city animals, such as hawks and opossums and animals with which they are more familiar, such as dogs and squirrels. The repetitive text pattern is illustrated with photographs.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions based on text information
  • Identify main idea and details
  • Blend phonemes to say words
  • Identify and read words with s-family blends
  • Recognize verbs
  • Categorize content words related to animals

Materials

  • Book -- City Animals (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Main idea and details, s-family blends 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: live, they
  • Content words: city, animals, mice, squirrels, geese, ducks, pigeons, opossums, hawks, dogs, raccoons