Noise in the Night
Adventure (fiction), 537 words, Level L (Grade 2)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension	Analyze Setting
Phonics	Variant Vowels
Grammar and Mechanics	Pronouns
Word Work	Suffixes

Book Summary

Noise in the Night is about two boys who love to play in a tent they have set up in the backyard. One night, they decide to sleep in the tent for the first time. They awaken suddenly to a loud noise but are unable to identify its source until they search the tent next to them. The story ending will amuse children.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
• Analyze changes in the setting
• Identify variant vowel aw
• Identify and use pronouns
• Recognize and use suffixes -ed and -ing

Vocabulary

• Content words: awfully, Baxter, brought, frantically, Jason, Manuel, noise, played, quietly, sandwiches, shook, snore, tent, whispered

Book Resources

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