Book Summary
Most children enjoy crawling under furniture and objects and will relate to the monkey as it does the same. The monkey guides children through a text with repeated high-frequency words and new vocabulary that names familiar things.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use picture information to predict whether the story is real or make-believe
• Identify reality and fantasy
• Listen for medial short vowel sound /u/
• Associate the letter Uu with the sound /u/
• Understand that some words tell actions
• Identify position words

Materials

• Book -- Under (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Reality and fantasy, short /u/ worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

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: the, under
• Content words: chair, desk, table, bed, pillow, umbrella, swing, tree