Changes Level J
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 398

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Worksheets

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COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
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Comprehension Quiz
Level J Answer Sheet

Book Summary
Changes is a story about some events that occur in a young girl's life. She tells about difficult feelings related to losing her cat, having a friend move away, starting a new school year, and more. Each of these difficult situations eventually provides a new opportunity for her, and she discovers that change is just part of life.

Reader Supports

• Simple story structure
  
• Repetitive pattern
  
• Familiar topic
  
• Text/picture correspondence
  

Reader Challenges

• Compound words
  
• Contractions
  
• Capitalization of names and holidays
  

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
As children work to understand the text, you will use a number of reading strategies. The targeted reading strategy in Changes is: look inside out for word parts that help establish meaning. The comprehension strategy is: Making connections between what they are reading and what they already know.

Word and Print Skills
Phonological Awareness
syllables

Phonics
Blends – such as: changes, anywhere, play, class, milk, friends, straight, crawly

Word Work
High utility words
have, has, here

Capitalization
Show children page 5 and ask them why they think that Taffy has a capital letter when it appears in the middle of the sentence. Remind them that names are always capitalized. Show them the name Robin on page 7.

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills, as children work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy in Changes is: Author’s point of view.
Ask: Who is telling this story? How do you know who is talking?
Explain that stories can be written in many ways. They can be told from the main character’s point of view or from the point of view of someone looking in on the events.

Visual Learning
Using the pictures provides children the opportunity to relate to the child in the story. Each picture shows whether she is happy about an event or sad. Children can understand her feelings by her expressions.

Targeted Vocabulary Words
High Utility Words
have, has, here

Content Words
Sometimes, cannot, anywhere, everything, airplane, downtown, butterflies, grownup
These content words are compound words. Children can break these words into the two root words to help them decipher the text.