Book Summary
Just as in real life, each child's hair is as unique as he or she is: curly, straight, dark, or light. Students will learn the concept of diversity, new adjective vocabulary, and reinforced high-frequency words.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Connect to prior knowledge to make meaning from text
• Identify main ideas and supporting details
• Discriminate initial sound /h/
• Associate the letter Hh with the sound /h/
• Recognize words that describe (adjectives)
• Identify words that are opposites (antonyms)

Materials

• Book -- My Hair (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Hand-held mirror
• Main idea and details, adjectives 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: my, is, your, what, like
• Content words: hair, curly, straight, black, blond, braided, short, long