Book Summary
What can you pretend to be? This book prompts students to think imaginatively and comparatively as they describe themselves. Students will learn descriptive words that relate to themselves as well as to individual animals. Detailed, supportive illustrations and repetitive phrases support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand the text
• Identify reality/fantasy in ideas, situations, and events
• Listen for and discriminate initial consonant /s/ sound
• Identify initial consonant Ss
• Recognize I as a simple subject in a sentence
• Recognize and use high-frequency words

Materials

• Book -- I Can Be (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Visualize, reality and fantasy, initial consonant Ss, high-frequency words, 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: as, be, can, I, like, many, me
• Content words: also, cheetah, fast, just, lion, loud, meek, mouse, peacock, proud, silent, slow, slug, snake