Book Summary
In What Has These Stripes? students will learn about animals and the kinds of stripes they have. This nonfiction book provides the perfect opportunity to practice classifying information. Detailed, supportive photographs, 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
• Word awareness
• Identify initial consonant Ll
• Recognize and use interrogative sentences
• Recognize and use question words

Materials

• Book -- What Has These Stripes? (copy for each student)
• Dry erase board or interactive white board
• Picture cards, classify information, initial consonant Ll, interrogative 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(s), fish, fuzzy, lion, long, smooth, snake, stripes, zebra