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A Seed Grows Level G
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 111

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
A Seed Grows describes the life cycle of a plant, from a seed falling on the ground to the production of roots and leaves, and finally to the production of a new seed. The book ends with readers contemplating what will happen next.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Retell

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of retelling to make meaning from text
  • Sequence events
  • Discriminate final sounds
  • Identify long /e/ vowel digraphs
  • Identify action words
  • Read and identify content vocabulary

Materials

  • Book -- A Seed Grows (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Sequence events, content vocabulary, seed journal worksheets
  • Lima beans, sandwich-sized zip closure bags, paper towel (one per student for science connection), styrofoam cups and soil as seeds sprout

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: a, and, from, that, the, to, what, will, in, into, up, down, on
  • Content words: seed, soil, rain, water, roots, stem, sunshine, plant, leaves, flowers


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