Lesson 13
Lesson 13
DRA: 6
Genre:
Informational Text
Strategy:
Visualize
Skill:
Author’s Purpose
Word Count: 109
K.3.13
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What can you see
in the desert?
2
You can see the
yellow sun.
The sun is hot
in the desert!
3
You can see a
green lizard.
Lizards like to sit
in the sun.
4
You can see a
brown owl.
He looks and looks for
little animals to catch.
5
Look at the big, big
green plant.
It likes the hot sun, too.
6
You can see
white flowers on top of
the big plant.
7
You can see a
brown rabbit
in the desert.
Look at the big ears!
8
Rabbits can run fast.
The sand is hot
in the desert!
9
What can you see
in the desert?
You can see many things.
10
Responding
TARGET SKILLAuthor’s
Purpose Why do you think the
author wrote about plants and
animals that live in the desert?
Talk About It
Text to World Draw a picture
of things that live in the desert.
Tell about your picture in two
sentences.
11
WORDS TO KNOW
what you
desert lizard
Author’s Purpose
TARGET SKILL
Visualize
TARGET STRATEGY
12
Level: D
DRA: 6
Genre:
Informational Text
Strategy:
Visualize
Skill:
Author’s Purpose
Word Count: 109
K.3.13
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Online Leveled Books
ISBN-13:978-0-547-01715-0
ISBN-10:0-547-01715-4
by Kate Pershing
1031528
H O UG H T O N M IF F L IN