Chili Pepper Powder Surprise
Realistic (fiction), 937 words, Level Q (Grade 3)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Summarize
Comprehension	Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics	Pronouns
Word Work	Homophones

Book Summary

Chili Pepper Powder Surprise is a story about Trisha and her first experience with a thoroughbred horse. She is visiting her cousin Adrian's farm in Tennessee from Chicago, and she's never seen anything as beautiful as the horse. Adrian dares her to get on the horse without his father's knowledge, and she reluctantly decides to give it a try. Suddenly, she and Pepper are racing dangerously out of control, and she has to think quickly to keep from getting seriously injured. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
• Analyze characters in the text
• Identify and understand the use of possessive pronouns
• Identify and use homophones

Vocabulary

• Content words: corral, dodging, galloping, gingerly, grazed, mane, saddle, sidestepped, stammered, stirrup, terrifyingly, tethered, thoroughbred, trot

Book Resources

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