Book Summary
Students will learn about animals and the kinds of spots they have in What Has These Spots? This nonfiction book provides an opportunity to compare and contrast information about animals. Detailed, supportive photographs, high-frequency words, and repetitive phrases provide support for 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
• Compare and contrast
• Blend onset and rime
• Identify initial consonant Bb
• Recognize and use declarative sentences
• Understand and use alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- What Has These Spots? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Compare and contrast, initial consonant Bb, declarative sentences 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: has, kind, no, of, these, what
• Content words: animal, black, bug, cheetah, fawn, lemur, spots, tiny, white