Book Summary
Through simple factual descriptions, readers discover how rocks transform from mountains to dust. Photographs of rocks, large and small, accompany the text. 

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Self-monitor

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of self-monitoring
• Sequence events in text
• Discriminate initial sounds
• Identify initial consonants
• Understand and recognize periods
• Identify high-frequency words

Materials

• Book -- Rocks (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Individual chalkboards or dry erase boards and markers for students
• Sequencing, initial consonants, high-frequency words 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: this, is, a, it, the, off
• Content words: rock(s), mountain, boulder, broke, stone, pebble, sand, dust