Smaller and Smaller Level H
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count : 206

LEVEL H
Leveled Readers
Smaller and Smaller
The Owl and the Pussycat
Friends Around the World
Animals, Animals
I'd Like to Be
Weird Bird Beaks
Police Officers
How the Mice Beat the Men
Ships and Boats
Summer Olympics Events
Maria's Thanksgiving
Earth's Water
Spring Is Here
Math Test Mix-Up
Wing's Visit to Singapore
Terell's Taste Buds
Nami's Gifts
Grasshopper's Gross Lunch

WORKSHEETS FOR
SMALLER AND SMALLER
Worksheets
U.K. Worksheets

LEVEL H
BENCHMARK BOOKS
How Long Does It Take
Living Together

COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
SMALLER AND SMALLER
Comprehension Quiz
Level H Answer Sheet

READERS THEATER
Smaller and Smaller

Book Summary
A group of farm animals standing on a hill notice that their friends appear smaller and smaller as they go to a barn far away on another hill. Cow, who believes that each animal has disappeared, is the last to go to the barn. When she gets to the barn, she discovers something unexpected. Engaging illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand and remember a fiction story
• Sequence events in a story
• Manipulate medial sounds in words
• Read words with r-controlled vowels
• Recognize and understand the use of quotation marks
• Identify and use synonyms

Materials

• Book -- Smaller and Smaller (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence events, quotation marks 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: were, said, the, to, too, she, see, saw, very
• Content words: shrinking, farther, goodness, disappeared, bigger, reached