Inside Your Body Level M
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 634

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WORKSHEETS FOR
INSIDE YOUR BODY
Worksheets

LEVEL M
BENCHMARK BOOKS
Spiders
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COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
INSIDE YOUR BODY
Comprehension Quiz
Level M Answer Sheet

Tommy Tales Books for Level M

Book Summary
Inside Your Body teaches children about some of the wonders of the human body. It explains the various systems that keep the body functioning like an amazing machine, from the skeletal system to the digestive system and more.

Suggested Lesson Focus
The following skills are suggested for the lesson focus and strategies will be provided for these skills throughout the lesson. Most likely, other skills will be addressed in the course of reading and discussing the book.

Comprehension
How to read informational text.

Phonics
r controlled vowels

Word Work
Syllables

Mechanics/Word Structure
Commas in a series

Visual Learning
Visual learning is a very important comprehension strategy. Model this strategy through teacher think aloud, sharing with children what you see in your mind as you read through the text. Using pictures to aid in deciphering text can 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 on each page).

Targeted vocabulary words
High Utility Words
there, give

Content Words
systems, skeletal, muscular, respiratory, circulatory