Lesson Objectives

Book Summary

Earth’s Water provides an informative lesson on water. The book reviews where water comes from, the different forms of water, and the water cycle. The book concludes with information on water conservation. Clear, easy-to-understand photographs enhance the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting life experiences and using prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Manipulate initial sounds in words
• Locate and read words that contain r-controlled vowels when the vowel e precedes the r
• Locate and categorize nouns
• Understand and use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: are, of, when
• Content words: clouds, Earth, evaporation, freezes, gas, invisible, liquid, melts, polluted, rain, solid, water