Lesson Objectives

Book Summary

Smelly Clyde is about a dog named Clyde who loves the smell of manure. One day he runs to Farmer Brown's farm and rolls and rolls in the manure of different animals. When Clyde goes home at the end of the day, he sniffs another odor, one he doesn't like. It's soap! Whimsical illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Identify and explain cause-and-effect relationships
• Identify consonant blend cl
• Recognize and form sentences with compound predicates
• Identify and use synonyms

Vocabulary

• Content words: absolute, absolutely, content, delightful, heavenly, manure, Mr. Mora, odor, refreshed, sniffed, terribly, whiff