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Li's Tangram Animals Level O
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 684

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
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