What Is at the Zoo? Level C
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 64

Book Summary
What Is at the Zoo? introduces students to the interrogative sentence form by asking them which animals are at the zoo. Although students may wish it were so, the last animal isn't seen in zoos these days. Pictures support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to make sense of text
• Identify main idea and details
• Blend phonemes
• Associate the letter Zz with the sound /z/
• Recognize statements and questions
• Recognize question words

Materials

• Book -- What Is at the Zoo? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, sentences 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: are, there
• Content words: bears, monkeys, elephants, giraffes, lions, tigers, hippos, sea lions, dinosaurs