Book Summary
Have you ever ridden on a public bus to get from one place to another? Students will follow the steps of a young girl as she takes the bus to school with her mother. Supportive photographs, simple repetitive sentences, and high-frequency words will help beginning readers to be successful as they read this informative book.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Sequence events
• Discriminate initial consonant sound /w/
• Identify initial consonant Ww
• Recognize and locate verbs
• Identify and use high-frequency word I

Materials

• Book -- Taking the Bus (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence events, initial consonant Ww, verbs, high-frequency word I worksheets
• Discussion cards

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

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: come, for, I, off, on, ride, see, the, to
• Content words: bus, pay, ride, school, wait, walk, way