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by Nicola Davies
Genre - narrative nonfiction
Paired Text - A Bat is Born
Genre - poetry
Essential Question:
What makes bats useful and interesting?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - sequence of events, domain-specific vocabulary
Target Strategy - question
Fluency - reading rate
Phonics
VCV
words with the VCV pattern
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Language Goals
Spelling - more short and long vowels
Vocabulary
Strategy - suffixes -able, -ible
Grammar
verbs
Skill Links
To Be or Not To Bee Being Verbs
Writing
Focus Trait - ideas
Writing Type - opinion writing (response paragraph)
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