Book Summary
To the Store is a fictional book about a little girl named Katie who loves to shop. The familiar settings, repeated sentence patterns, and strong picture support ensure students' reading success.

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 phonemes
• Read words with the initial and final st blend
• Capitalize and punctuate sentences
• Identify compound words

Materials

• Book -- To the Store (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Classify information, compound words 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: to, go, the, she, goes, with, her, for, a
• Content words: Katie, bookstore, shopping, grandfather, clothing, coat, grandmother