Book Summary
This book teaches students about the types of animals that live in the country. Students learn some of the eating habits and activities of these animals. Detailed photographs and repetitive phrases support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate initial consonant digraph wh
• Identify initial consonant digraph wh
• Recognize and use pronoun they
• List words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- Country Animals (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main ideas and details, consonant digraph wh, pronouns 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: do, from, they, what, where, you
• Content words: animals, country, eat, fields, geese, grains, kinds, live, people, rivers, robins, squirrels