About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify the story elements of characters and setting
• Discriminate final sound /k/
• Identify consonant blend tr
• Recognize and understand names as proper nouns
• Understand the order of letters in the alphabet

Materials

• Book -- Maria's Halloween (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board, index cards, alphabet chart
• Story elements, initial blend tr, proper 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: at, for, go, look, or, the, you
• Content words: ghost, Halloween, pumpkin, spider, treat, trick