About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate the initial /m/ sound
• Identify and write initial consonant Mm
• Recognize the word I as a proper noun
• Recognize and write the high-frequency word and

Materials

• Book -- Mom and I (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, initial consonant Mm, proper noun 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: and, are, I, Mom
• Content words: apes, bears, dolphins, elephants, giraffes, kangaroos, lions, zebras