About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate rhyming words
• Identify and write words that rhyme with make
• Recognize the purpose of an exclamation point for punctuation and expression
• Identify and segment compound words

Materials

• Book -- I Count 100 Things (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Main idea and details, rhyming patterns, exclamation point, compound words 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, at, can, I, look, make, these, things, what
• Content words: blocks, count, gumdrops, house, igloo, marshmallow, paperclips, rainbow