Book Summary
Counting Letters provides a perfect way to introduce number words to beginning readers, as well as discuss the concepts of letters and words. Repetitive text and photographs provide support.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Classify information
• Discriminate initial consonant sound /l/
• Identify initial consonant Ll
• Recognize capital letters
• Identify and use number words

Materials

• Book -- Counting Letters (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Word cards, classify information, initial consonant Ll, capital letters, number words 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: five, four, one, seven, six, three, two
• Content words: great, letter, letters, words