The Thanksgiving the Jacks Built

Reading Strategy	Visualize
Comprehension	Identify Setting
Phonological Awareness	Rhyme
Phonics	Rhyme
Grammar and Mechanics	Verb Tense
Word Work	High-Frequency Words

Book Summary

The Thanksgiving the Jacks Built and The Thanksgiving the Other Jacks Built are intended to be used together. These books use the same words but different pictures to illustrate Thanksgiving celebrated by an all-American family and an alien family. The lesson offers a unique opportunity to show students how a change in setting can change the meanings of words, as well as to provide an across-text connection. Familiar text pattern and repetitive language support readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

Visualize

Objectives

Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
Identify setting
Discriminate rhyming words
Identify rhyming words
Recognize and use past-tense verbs
Understand and use the high-frequency words who and whose

Vocabulary

High-frequency words: ate, down, that, this, who, whose, with
Content words: built, family, farmer, father, grocer, mother, supplied, Thanksgiving, turkey

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