Book Summary
Students will learn about the different types of coverings that animals have in this informational text. Photographs, repetitive text, and high-frequency words support 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 consonant sound /f/
• Identify initial consonant Ff
• Recognize and use nouns
• Identify and use high-frequency word we

Materials

• Book -- Animal Coverings (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, initial consonant Ff, nouns 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 words: have, just, we
• Content words: armor, feathers, fur, hair, scales, shells, skin, spines