Book Summary
Summer is a great season for outdoor activities such as picnics. In Summer Picnics, readers learn about all the things people can see while on a picnic during the summer. Strong picture-to-text connections make this an ideal book for emergent readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate initial sound /s/
• Identify initial consonant Ss
• Recognize and use periods
• Categorize words

Materials

• Book -- Summer Picnics (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, initial consonant Ss, periods 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

• Content words: cups, foods, fun, hats, picnics, plates, shoes, summer, sun