About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Classify information
• Discriminate initial sound /h/
• Identify initial consonant Hh
• Recognize and understand the use of a period at the end of a sentence
• Identify, write, and correctly use high-frequency words a, here, and lives

Materials

• Book -- What Lives Here? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board, chart paper
• Picture cards, classify information, initial consonant Hh, periods 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 word: a, here, lives
• Content words: bear, bee, child, deer, fish, frog, worm