Lesson Objectives

Book Summary

Friends Around the World focuses on children from various countries around the world. All of the children in the book tell their names and where they live. They also share something about what they like to do for entertainment and a type of food they like to eat. Illustrations and a map support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Identify details to compare and contrast characters
• Blend phonemes
• Recognize and read words with short /e/ vowel
• Recognize proper nouns
• Arrange words in alphabetical order

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: the, their, they, this, with
• Content words: Australia, barbecued, Canada, kangaroos, ketchup, Moscow, Russia, silk, South Korea, Tanzania