Book Summary
All around us, people in our communities take care of different things. What would we do without a road worker, a vet, a dentist, and a police officer? Students will understand that everything, from pets to people to roads, needs care.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand the text
• Classify information
• Discriminate the short /i/ vowel sound
• Associate the letter Ii with the short /i/ vowel sound
• Recognize pronouns
• Recognize and read high-frequency words a, is, and this

Materials

• Book -- Caretakers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Classify information, short /i/ 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: this, is, a, he, she
• Content words: gardener, road worker, roads, babysitter, babies, dentist, teeth, vet, animals, doctor, people, firefighters, police officers