Book Summary
In The Busy Pond, a boy sees many animals and plants when he goes to the pond. He notices what each animal is doing and what the plants look like. Repetitive text, high-frequency words, and supportive pictures make this book perfect for emerging readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Classify information
• Discriminate initial consonant sound /p/
• Identify initial consonant Pp
• Identify nouns as naming words
• Identify and write the high-frequency word they

Materials

• Book -- The Busy Pond (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Picture cards, classify information, initial consonant Pp, nouns 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: all, are, around, many, see, they, when
• Content words: busy, cattails, ducks, fish, frogs, lily pads, pond, swim, turtles, water