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Needs and Wants Level F
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count : 138

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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LEVEL F
Leveled Readers
Where Is Cub?
Josh Gets Glasses
How Do They Move?
Changing Seasons
How Is the Weather Today?
The Food Chain
Fishing with Grandpa
A Clown Face
Mother's Day
Needs and Wants
Glassblowing
Our Camping Trip
White House Pets
Gaggle, Herd, and Murder
Community Workers
Scaredy Crow
Trucking
The Snowstorm
How to Make a Snow Person
In a Chinese Garden
Does It Sink or Float?
Taste This
Friends in the Stars

WORKSHEETS FOR
NEEDS AND WANTS
Worksheets

LEVEL F
BENCHMARK BOOKS

Many Roads
Monkey to the Top

COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
NEEDS AND WANTS
Comprehension Quiz
Level F Answer Sheet

OTHER PRINT OPTIONS
Wordless Book



Correlation
READING A-Z LEVEL F
Grade 1
Fountas
& Pinnell
F
Reading
Recovery
9-10
DRA 10
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Book Summary
What do we want? What do we really need? Students will learn the difference between requirements and desires in this helpful leveled reader. The text uses familiar situations that students easily connect to, and the illustrations cleverly show how we often wish for what we want even as we get what we need. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Connect life experience and use prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Classify and categorize text information
  • Identify final n-blends /nd/, /nk/, and /nt/
  • Associate the letters nd, nk, and nt with the phonetic elements /nd/, /nk/, and /nt/
  • Recognize adjectives as words that describe
  • Use content vocabulary

Materials

  • Book - Needs and Wants (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Classification, N-blend Endings, Content Vocabulary worksheets
  • Set of nd, nk, and nt ending blend cards for each student

     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: home, need, some, things, want
  • Content words: breathe, clothing, coat, dinner, drink, kite, lemonade, pasta, storm, winter