Book Summary
In Nothing for Father's Day, a dad who has received less than useful gifts the previous Father's Day tells his family that he wants nothing for Father's Day. The family honors his request but gives him something special that doesn't come in a box. The picture-to-text correspondence and repetitive text patterns contribute to the readers' enjoyment of the story.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions while reading
• Understand cause-and-effect relationships in the text
• Discriminate medial long vowel sounds
• Read VCe long /a/ words
• Identify and form regular plural nouns
• Use high-frequency words have and has

Materials

• Book -- Nothing for Father's Day (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, plural nouns worksheets
• Set of plastic or cut-out letters for each student: h, a, s, v, e (optional)
• 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: have, said, look, has, them
• Content words: ties, socks, computer game, crash, everyone, enough