About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Self-monitor

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of self-monitoring to understand text
• Categorize animals' movements
• Identify the number of syllables in given words
• Identify beginning consonants
• Recognize and understand periods
• Correctly alphabetize words

Materials

• Book -- Animals Can Move (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Categorization, consonants, alphabetizing 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: the, can, run, how, these
• Content words: walk, slither, hop, swim, fly, crawl, move