Jessica Loves Soccer Level L
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 514

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Book Summary
Jessica Loves Soccer is a story about being a female in male territory. The young heroine faces the usual gender obstacles but in the end is acknowledged as being a good soccer player, even by her brothers.

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: Using context clues.
The use of context clues and pictures helps in the decoding of new words and ideas. Knowledge and recognition of root words allows children to extend existing vocabulary and establish meaning.

Word and Print Skills
Phonics
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hard, harder, Sharks

Word Work
Capitalization for proper nouns
Root words: goal, play

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: Making inferences.
Using what they already know, the pictures, and context clues, children can make inferences about the characters, plot, and gender themes. Asking and answering questions allows the children to explore alternative outcomes and challenge the assumptions of gender behavior.

Visual Learning
The details of the pictures will reinforce inferences made and the decoding of new words.

Targeted Vocabulary Words
Content words related to subject
soccer, game, field, coach, team, teammate, captain, kick, ball, score, referee, championship

Phonetic target words
Sharks, harder, hard

Word work target words
goalkeeper, goalie, goal, player, play, played