Strange Plants Level K
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count : 431

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COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
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Comprehension Quiz
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Book Summary
Strange Plants is an informative look at unusual plants around the world. This book includes photographs of these strange plants and descriptions of their unusual qualities. Readers will be fascinated as they learn about carnivorous plants and other amazing members of the plant kingdom.

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
Children should use a variety of strategies to determine word meaning and comprehend text. The targeted strategy for this lesson is: Reading ahead.
Decoding words by reading ahead is a strategy children can use to progress through a text that is difficult for them.

The strategy for comprehension is: Summarizing after each section. After reading each section, children can discuss the characteristics that make each plant unusual.

Word and Print Skills
Phonics
long e sound
Long e lesson is addressed later in the Building Skills section of this lesson.

Word Work
Punctuation
Hyphenated words

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as children work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: Rereading.
Having children reread the text once they have decoded all the words will help them with comprehension and fluency.

Visual Learning
Help children develop an understanding of the relationship between picture details and the text for increased word recognition (for example, the one-to-one correspondence between words and pictures in Strange Plants.)

Targeted Vocabulary Words
Content Words
imagine, moisture, critter, spikes, digests, parasite, colonies
These content words are used to describe what is strange about these plants.