Book Summary
What might you see when you visit a pond? Students have the opportunity to read number words and count animals that live near a pond. High-frequency words, repetitive text, and supportive illustrations make this book ideal 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 initial consonant sound /f/
• Identify and write the consonant Ff
• Recognize pronoun I
• Identify and use number words

Materials

• Book -- Pond Animals (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard, dry erase board, or interactive board
• Visualize, initial consonant Ff, pronoun I worksheets

   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: I, see
• Content words: bugs, ducks, fish, frogs, pond, swans, turtles, worms