Book Summary
What can your early readers do? The children in I Can can hop, jump, ride, and play. Every child can do something. The repeated text patterns, high-frequency words, and familiar verbs in this text give students another accomplishment to add to their list: reading.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use prediction strategies to make meaning from text
• Identify main idea and details
• Listen for rhyme
• Read words from CVC short /a/ word families
• Recognize some words name actions (verbs)
• Categorize words

Materials

• Book -- I Can (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, word families worksheets
• 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: I, can
• Content words: run, jump, swing, hop, ride, climb, crawl, play