Book Summary
What would you pack in your picnic basket? We Pack a Picnic shows the food two friends pack for their picnic. Students have the opportunity to ask and answer questions as they read this book. Detailed, supportive illustrations, high-frequency words, and repetitive phrases support beginning readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Classify information
• Demonstrate word awareness
• Identify initial consonant Pp
• Recognize and use singular and plural subjects
• Alphabetize words

Materials

• Book -- We Pack a Picnic (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Picture cards, ask and answer questions, initial consonant Pp, singular/plural subjects worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: a, we
• Content words: apples, carrots, cheese, crackers, drinks, grapes, pack, picnic, sandwiches