Being Bilingual

Reading Strategy	Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension	Compare and Contrast
Phonological Awareness	Long Vowels
Phonics	Vowel Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics	Proper Nouns
Word Work	Foreign Vocabulary

Book Summary

Many people all over the world speak two languages. They are bilingual. In Being Bilingual, readers meet children from different cultures and learn their names and the languages they speak. A pronunciation guide, glossary, and table of contents are included to support readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
Compare and contrast information
Discriminate long /e/ vowel sound
Identify and read long /e/ vowel digraph ea
Recognize and use proper nouns
Recognize foreign words

Vocabulary

High-frequency words: are, make, many, more, than, two, use(d), what, who, you
Content words: Aztecs, bilingual, Cherokee, French, Guarani, Hispanic, Incas, language, live, Nahuatl, Navajo, newspaper, Paraguay, Quebec, Quechua, such, tribe, weave

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