Baby Animals Level A
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 32

Book Summary
What child--or what adult, for that matter--can resist the charm of a puppy, a lion cub, or a lamb? Simple and adorable photos accompany the repeated text patterns. While new vocabulary such as foal and kid may challenge students, the high-interest subject will keep them reading.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the strategy of asking and answering questions to make meaning from text
• Main idea and details
• Discriminate initial sound /k/
• Associate the letter Kk with the sound /k/
• Understand that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with some form of punctuation
• Understand words for baby animals

Materials

• Book -- Baby Animals (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, picture cards, capitalization and punctuation worksheets
• Shoe box with a picture of a kitten on the lid and a slit made in the lid so students can put in pictures
• Picture cards made from the picture cards worksheet
• Word journal (optional)

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: this, is, a
• Content words: kitten, puppy, chick, cub, calf, kid, lamb, foal