About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand the story
• Identify the story elements of problem and solution
• Discriminate initial /y/ sound
• Identify initial consonant Yy
• Recognize and discriminate between question marks and periods
• Understand and locate position words

Materials

• Book -- I Looked Everywhere (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Problem and solution, initial consonant Yy, question mark and period 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: did, for, I, is, in, look, looked, my, not, there, you, your
• Content words: bed, closet, everywhere, shoe, toy box