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Happy Birthday, Snag! Level E
Text Type: Fiction Word Count: 120

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WORKSHEETS FOR
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SNAG!
Worksheets

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COMPREHENSION QUIZ FOR
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Comprehension Quiz
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Correlation
READING A-Z LEVEL F
Grade 1
Fountas
& Pinnell
F
Reading
Recovery
9-10
DRA 10
Lesson Parts
1) Before Reading
2) During Reading
3) After Reading
4) Build Skills
5) Build Fluency
6) Expand the Reading
7) Assessment

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Text Summary
As the guests in Happy Birthday, Snag arrive at the party, Bonk makes sure each has brought along a familiar birthday item, such as balloons, a cake, candles, and presents. When guests begin wonder what Bonk has brought, he surprises the group by bringing Snag, the guest of honor. Pictures support the text and the identification of these content words in print.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
  • Classify information
  • Discriminate medial long sounds /a/ (cake) and long /i/ (pile)
  • Recognize VCe long vowel patterns in print and read simple VCe long vowel words
  • Recognize quotation marks at the beginning and end of dialogue
  • Identify and understand the use of the high-frequency word put

Materials

  • Book -- Happy Birthday, Snag! (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Index cards
  • Classify information, picture cards, VCe words, quotation marks 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

  • High-frequency words: do, have, I, in, put, the, yes, you
  • Content words: balloons, birthday, cake, candles, party, presents