About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate initial sound /l/
• Identify initial consonant Ll
• Recognize and understand that nouns are naming words
• Recognize and write the high-frequency words look, like, and to

Materials

• Book -- Bananas Sometimes (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, picture cards, initial consonant Ll, 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: eat, good, like, look, to
• Content words: always, bananas, boats, frowns, hands, pencils, smiles, sometimes, spiders, telephone