Book Summary
Lily the Cat woke up from her nap and decided to look around the house. What will Lily see as she goes around the house? Lily the Cat provides the opportunity for students to retell the story as well as sequence events. Illustrations support the text. High-frequency words and repetitive phrases make this book a great choice for beginning readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Sequence events
• Segment onset and rime
• Identify short /a/ vowel
• Identify and use past tense verbs
• Identify and use position words

Materials

• Book -- Lily the Cat (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence events, short /a/ vowel, past-tense verbs worksheets
• Discussion cards

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

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: her, from, saw, she
• Content words: chair, circled, couch, crossed, curled, jumped, strolled, table, walked