The Four Seasons

Reading Strategy	Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension	Main Idea and Details
Phonological Awareness	Rhyme
Phonics	Vowel Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics	Comparative Adjectives
Word Work	Categorize Words

Book Summary

Who wouldn’t like to play in the rain during a spring shower? Or swim at the beach on a hot summer’s day? In this informational book, students will learn the seasons that these activities are usually associated with, as well as some of the characteristics of each season. Photographs of children enjoying seasonal activities such as carving a pumpkin and building a snowman will help students make text-to-self connections.

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 informational text
Understand the main idea and identify details
Identify and produce rhyme
Associate vowel digraph ea with the phonetic element /ea/
Understand that the word ending -er can be used to compare things
Understand and categorize seasonal content vocabulary words

Vocabulary

High-frequency words: are, in, the
Content words: beach, children, colder, cool, faces, fall, leaves, longer, melts, puddles, pumpkins, seasons, shorter, snow, spring, summer, winds, winter

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