About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Classify things that are hot and cold
• Discriminate initial sounds
• Identify initial consonants
• Recognize and understand capitalization
• Read and use letters to make high-frequency words

Materials

• Book -- Hot and Cold (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Classify information, initial consonants, high-frequency words worksheets

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: can, be, or, A
• Content words: things, hot, cold, place, food, people