Lesson Objectives

Book Summary

This is a illustrated collection of famous stories about the first U.S. president, George Washington. Each story includes examples of how George Washington was an honest person, even as a child.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Cause and effect
• Discriminate initial and final consonant blend /st/ in words
• Identify words with initial and final blend st
• Place periods in the correct location within a story
• Identify words that mean the opposite (antonyms)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: day, did, down, my, no
• Content words: bucked, George Washington, harshly, hatchet, honest, president, tumbled