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Li's Tangram Animals Level O
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 684
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
Li's Tangram Animals is about an eight-year-old boy from China who has recently moved to the United States. He is worried about fitting in with his second grade classmates. When Li gives his teacher a tangram, the students become interested in how it works and friendships blossom. Illustrations and diagrams support the text and introduce readers to basic geometry concepts.
About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
- Visualize
Objectives
- Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
- Identify story elements
- Identify quotation marks in text
- Arrange words in alphabetical order
Materials
- Book -- Li's Tangram Animals (copy for each student)
- Chalkboard or dry erase board
- Tangram, story elements, quotation marks, alphabetizing 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
- Content words: cartilage, China, clever, language, marsupial, parallel, parallelogram, riddles, square, surprise, symbol, tangram puzzle, triangles
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