Lesson Objectives

Book Summary

Cows eat grass, birds eat seeds, and monkeys eat fruit. This is no surprise, but the goat's diet is sure to surprise and delight readers. Patterned text repeats essential high-frequency words while introducing readers to new words.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Identify author’s purpose
• Orally discriminate medial sounds in words
• Associate the letter Ll with the /l/ sound
• Identify nouns
• Categorize words

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: is, like, my, that
• Content words: crunch, gulp, munch, slurp, zap