About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Identify rhyming words
• Identify words with the short u vowel
• Recognize and understand the word I as a proper noun
• Recognize, write, and understand the meaning of the high-frequency word and

Materials

• Book -- You and I (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, short vowel u, proper noun worksheets

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

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: and, have, I, of, you
• Content words: bike, dance, fun, hike, lots, ride, run, slide, swing