Tag-Along Goat
Humorous (fiction), 211 words, Level H (Grade 1)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Retell
Comprehension	Story Elements
Phonological Awareness	Discriminate Initial Digraph
Phonics	Consonant Digraphs
Grammar and Mechanics	Contractions
Word Work	High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

The monsters visit a petting zoo and feed the animals. Everything appears to be going well until a goat escapes and follows them home. Now they are faced with the problem of getting a stubborn goat back to the zoo. Tag-Along Goat is the perfect book to introduce story elements. Humorous pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Identify story elements
• Discriminate initial consonant digraph /th/
• Identify initial consonant digraph th
• Identify and use contractions
• Understand and use high-frequency words there and their

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: back, doesn’t, says, their, there, they
• Content words: animals, carrots, chicken, corn, donkey, empty, escapes, feed, gently, goats, notice, pocket, sprinkles, trail