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Horseshoes Aren't Just for Good Luck
Level T
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 1602

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FOR GOOD LUCK

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Comprehension Quiz
Level T Answer Sheet



Correlation
READING A-Z LEVEL T
Grade 3
Fountas
& Pinnell
P
Reading
Recovery
23
DRA 38
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
Horseshoes Aren’t Just For Good Luck is written in the first person by a child who is visiting Gram at the seashore over summer vacation. Living in a Victorian beach town is quite a contrast to the child’s usual life in the city. The child learns about life at the beach, especially the life of horseshoe crabs. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Visualize

Objectives

  • Visualize characters and events in text while reading
  • Identify fact and opinion
  • Understand and change present-tense verbs to past tense
  • Understand and use homophones and homographs

Materials

  • Book -- Horseshoes Aren’t Just For Good Luck (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Fact/opinion, past-tense verbs, homophones and homographs 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: burrow, dwellers, eroding, invertebrates, lulled, recedes, screeching, seashore, stranded, undersides