Getting Around the City Level D
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 83

Book Summary
Everyone in the family uses a different mode of transportation to get where they are going. Mom uses the car, while Grandpa takes a taxi. The story ends with a mode of transportation almost anyone can enjoy.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
• Compare and contrast
• Discriminate medial vowel sounds
• Associate the letter Uu with the short /u/ vowel sound
• Recognize naming words
• Categorize words

Materials

• Book -- Getting Around the City (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Compare and contrast, medial 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: I, go, to, my, on, a, the, he, she, goes
• Content words: skateboard, bike, car, subway, taxi, bus, ferry boat, walk, house, school, work, airport, store, office