Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting life experience and using prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify questions and answers in nonfiction text
• Listen for words that begin with the sound /f/
• Associate the letter Ff with the sound /f/
• Understand punctuation at the end of questions and statements
• Match animal feet with descriptive vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- What Has These Feet? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Illustrations or photographs of animals
• Question and answer, content vocabulary worksheets

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students consume the books.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: what, has, these
• Content words: feet, animals, duck, elephant, tiger, shark, kind, little, big, soft