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What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
Concept (nonfiction), 32 words, Level A (Grade K), Lexile BR20L
What things make you happy? What things make kids happy? What Makes Me Happy? is a fun book with colorful photographs detailing different things that make kids happy. Students will have the opportunity to identify cause-and-effect relationships as well as to connect to prior knowledge to understand and remember the book. Vivid photographs, repetitive phrases, and high-frequency words support early emergent readers.
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Kurzweil 3000 Format
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Lesson Resources
High-Frequency Words
make, me
Story Words
bubbles, friends, happy, make, swings, trains
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Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Connect to prior knowledge to understand text
Comprehension
Cause and Effect : Identify cause-and-effect relationships
Phonological Awareness
Final Consonants : Discriminate final consonant /s/ sound
Phonics
Consonants : Identify final consonant Ss
Grammar and Mechanics
Periods : Recognize and use periods
Word Work
Alphabetical Order : Understand and arrange words in alphabetical order
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class