Book Summary
This book informs students of names and types of vegetables that can be grown in any garden, including a container garden on a rooftop in a city. The young boy in the story waters his various vegetable plants daily in hopes of creating his own salad. Detailed, supportive illustrations, repetitive phrases, and a refrain support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify cause and effect
• Discriminate initial consonant blend /gr/
• Identify initial consonant blend gr
• Recognize and use exclamation points
• Recognize and identify content-specific words

Materials

• Book -- Grow, Vegetables, Grow! (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, initial consonant blend gr, and content sight words worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: a, I, make, the, to, want
• Content words: bean(s), carrot(s), cucumber(s), green, grow, onion(s), pea(s), pepper(s), plant(s), salad, tomato(es), vegetable, water