Book Summary
Workers is an informational book that tells about workers from the farm to the dinner table as wheat becomes bread. The various workers are presented in sequential order, from the farmer who harvests the wheat to the family member who serves it for dinner. Pictures support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Sequence steps in a process
• Blend phonemes
• Identify r-family blends
• Identify nouns
• Categorize words

Materials

• Book -- Workers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence events, nouns 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: this, is, of, for, many
• Content words: farmer, trucker, miller, baker, grocer