Targeted Reading Strategy

• Self-monitoring

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of self-monitoring to accurately read and understand text
• Compare and contrast
• Discriminate initial sounds
• Identify initial consonants
• Identify periods (full stops)
• Use high-frequency word vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Busy At School (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Highlighters, scissors
• Compare and contrast, phonics, vocabulary 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: the, are, at, they, a, to
• Content words: children, busy, school, song, picture, game, story, snacks, share, toys, count, numbers, write