Text Summary
This simple leveled reader uses students' favorite subject—animals—to illustrate a crucial spatial relationship. Each animal is shown close-up and then farther away in its natural habitat. The simple, patterned text and beautiful photographs ensure that this book educates while it entertains. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Categorize information
• Discriminate initial sounds
• Identify words that start with f
• Recognize and use antonyms/opposites

Materials

• Book -- Near and Far Away (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Chart paper
• Comprehension, phonics, vocabulary worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

    Indicates an opportunity to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: is, this, that
• Content words: lion, near, far, away, owl, wolf, deer