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Garrett Morgan and the Traffic Signal
Level J Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 232

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Correlation
READING A-Z LEVEL J
Grade 1
Fountas
& Pinnell		 I
Reading
Recovery		 16
DRA 16
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
People follow traffic signals every day. Did you ever wonder where the idea for the traffic signal came from? Garrett Morgan and the Traffic Signal tells about the problems of buggy and car drivers in the 1920s and one man's plan to help keep the streets safe. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Retell 

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand text
  • Identify elements of a biography
  • Manipulate initial and final sounds
  • Recognize open vowel y
  • Understand and recognize verbs
  • Identify and understand how to place words in alphabetical order

Materials

  • Book -- Garrett Morgan and the Traffic Signal (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Elements of a biography, open vowel y, verbs 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: knew, new, saw, then, this, went, when
  • Content words: buggies, busy, Cleveland, corners, Ohio, plan, problems, signal, traffic