Book Summary
What happens when nighttime falls? Look out the window to see. This book tells about many things we see and do when it is nighttime. Delightful illustrations add humor to the book.

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 cause-and-effect relationships
• Discriminate final sounds
• Associate the letter Nn with the sound /n/
• Capitalize and punctuate sentences
• Identify compound words

Materials

• Book -- When Is Nighttime? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, final sounds 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: when, is, the, it, to
• Content words: nighttime, rises, shine, fireflies, blink, lights, sleep