The Message
Historical (fiction), 2,500 words, Level Z (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension	Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics	Dash
Word Work	Similes

Book Summary

The Message takes place in the 1940s in Caen, France, during Hitler's reign over Europe during World War II. Three young, brave French Resistance workers meet privately to relay important information to other Resistance workers. Using a homemade radio transmitter, they broadcast lifesaving information to help liberate France--but not without facing grave danger. Illustrations and maps support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Analyze characters in text
• Understand the use of a dash as punctuation
• Identify similes

Vocabulary

• Content words: aerial, alias, askew, blackout, bunkers, clandestine, concealed, dictator, dispatched, fabricated, liberate, pungent, reinforcements, scrutinized, steeled, vacant, warily

Book Resources

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