Book Summary
What are opposites? Students have the opportunity to learn about opposite words in this book with supportive photographs. High-frequency words and repetitive text make this book easy for early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Identify author's purpose
• Discriminate words in a sentence
• Identify initial consonant Ss
• Recognize periods
• Identify and write the high-frequency word is

Materials

• Book -- Opposites (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Visualize, initial consonant Ss, periods worksheets
• Discussion cards

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

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: is, off, on, this, up
• Content words: closed, down, fast, open, slow