Lesson Plans Early Fluent reading stage Level J (18)
Fun Food to Make and Eat is a procedural text containing five recipes. Each recipe is fun to make and uses healthy foods.
The Queen’s New Chef is a narrative about a queen who holds a contest to find a new chef. Chefs from around the land enter the contest and make the sweetest, creamiest, desserts possible. But a cook who makes a healthy stew wins the contest.
Running words: 427 Text type: Procedure
Running words: 513 Text type: Narrative
Content vocabulary
active beans broiler cake caramel carrots celery chef cherries chocolate cook cookie cutter cup cut deli ham delicious dip healthy ice cream melts nuts oven pancakes pita bread peas pizza plate put recipes sauce scrumptious skewer slice spread sprinkle stew tablespoon tasty toast toothpick vegetables yummy
Phonics
• Identifying the vowel digraph “ea” as in bread, spread, healthy • Identifying “i” making the /ee/ sound as in cauliflower, broccoli
Text features Fun Food to Make and Eat
• Headings; numbered steps and photographs; a ‘try this’ section
The Queen’s New Chef
• Dialogue
Reading strategies
• Recognizing and using text features (procedure) • Making predictions
Correlations with State Standards Reading literature 2.RL.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. Informational texts 2.RI.8 Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. Foundational skills 2.RF.3c Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
Writing 2.W.1 Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section. Speaking and listening 2.SL.6 Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. Language 2.L.4d Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words.