Needs and Wants

Reading Strategy	Connect to prior knowledge
Comprehension	Classify Information
Phonological Awareness	Final Blends
Phonics	Consonant Blends
Grammar and Mechanics	Adjectives
Word Work	Content Vocabulary

Book Summary

What do we want? What do we really need? Students will learn the difference between requirements and desires in this helpful leveled reader. The text uses familiar situations that students easily connect to, and the illustrations cleverly show how we often wish for what we want even as we get what we need.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
Classify and categorize text information
Identify final n-blends nd, nk, ng, and nt
Associate the letters nd, nk, ng, and nt with the phonetic elements /nd/, /nk/, /ng/, and /nt/
Recognize adjectives as words that describe
Use content vocabulary

Vocabulary

High-frequency words: home, need, some, things, want
Content words: breathe, clothing, coat, dinner, drink, kite, lemonade, pasta, storm, winter

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