We Count

Reading Strategy	Visualize
Comprehension	Classify Information
Phonological Awareness	Initial Consonants
Phonics	Consonants
Grammar and Mechanics	Capitalization
Word Work	High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

We Count offers students the opportunity to count by ones and tens to 100 using pictures of spiders, slugs, and various types of insects. Illustrations and repetitive text support students as they read. (Note: Bugs is a generic term that is often used to refer to various types of insects. Spiders are referred to as arachnids and slugs are mollusks.)

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

Visualize

Objectives

Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
Classify information
Discriminate initial /k/ sound
Identify initial consonant Cc
Recognize and understand the use of capital letters at the beginning of a sentence
Identify, write, and correctly use high-frequency words I and you

Vocabulary

High-frequency words: can, I, we, you
Content words: ants, beetles, bugs, butterflies, count, crickets, fleas, flies, grubs, hungry, ladybugs, slugs, spiders, ten

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