Book Summary
A girl uses every sense to enjoy the beauty of a garden. Lovely illustrations bring the sensory details to life. Readers learn to observe and experience the world around them as fully as possible.

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
• Blend sounds in words heard orally
• Associate the letter Bb with the sound /b/
• Identify words that describe
• Identify synonyms

Materials

• Book -- Senses (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Counters
• Classify information, initial consonant Bb, adjectives 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: I, use, to, my
• Content words: senses, eyes, see, ears, hear, nose, smell, fingers, touch, tongue, taste, bees, birds, flowers, caterpillar, berries, garden