Book Summary
Tools is an informational book about familiar tools that help us work. The picture-to-text correspondence helps readers learn the names of various tools and understand their functions. On the last page of the book, readers are challenged to identify additional tools.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the strategy of pausing to retell to clarify information in the book
• Classify information
• Discriminate initial sounds
• Associate the letter Tt with the sound /t/
• Recognize nouns as naming words
• Recognize and read high-frequency words it and here

Materials

• Book -- Tools (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Classify information, initial consonant Tt worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

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: it, is, a, here
• Content words: everywhere, work, tools, pencil, writing, rake, raking, hammer, pounding, shovel, digging, knife, cutting, wheelbarrow, carrying