What Has These Stripes?
Concept book (nonfiction), 57 words, Level B (Grade K)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Ask and answer questions
Comprehension	Classify Information
Phonological Awareness	Word Awareness
Phonics	Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics	Interrogative Sentences
Word Work	Question Words

Book Summary

In What Has These Stripes? students will learn about animals and the kinds of stripes they have. This nonfiction book provides the perfect opportunity to practice classifying information. Detailed, supportive photographs, high-frequency words, and repetitive phrases support beginning readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Classify information
• Word awareness
• Identify initial consonant Ll
• Recognize and use interrogative sentences
• Recognize and use question words

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: as, kind, no, of, these, what
• Content words: animal(s), fish, fuzzy, lion, long, smooth, snake, stripes, zebra

Book Resources

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