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The Food Chain Level F
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count : 152

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
THE FOOD CHAIN
Worksheets
U.K. Worksheets

LEVEL F
BENCHMARK BOOKS

Many Roads
Monkey to the Top

COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
THE FOOD CHAIN
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
The Food Chain features five items in the food chain: a plant, a grasshopper, a frog, a fish, and a bear. The book describes how each link in the food chain is consumed by the link that follows it. The book concludes with a one-page photo sequence of the parts of the food chain depicted in the book. Clear, easy-to-understand photographs enhance the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
  • Sequence steps in a process
  • Orally blend phonemes in words
  • Recognize and read ea digraph words
  • Use proper punctuation in sentences
  • Locate and read compound words

Materials

  • Book -- The Food Chain (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Sequence events, punctuation, compound words 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: need, they, other
  • Content words: food chain, air, water, sunlight, soil, animals, plants, leaves, grasshopper, fish, frog