Book Summary
In The Garden, students use illustrations to identify different types of vegetables grown in a garden. The simple repetitive phrases, supportive pictures, and use of the high-frequency word the make this book easy for beginning 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 /p/ sound
• Identify initial consonant Pp
• Recognize and understand that nouns are naming words
• Identify and use high-frequency word the

Materials

• Book -- The Garden (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, initial consonant Pp, nouns 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 word: the
• Content words: beans, corn, garden, melons, onions, peas, potatoes, tomatoes