Book Summary
Students everywhere will relate to this simple chapter book about getting ready for the first day of school. Photographs of children from around the world performing tasks such as buying supplies, getting dressed, and going to school will help students make text-to-self connections. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect life experiences and use prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting life experiences and using prior knowledge to understand informational text
• Identify the main idea of the book and find supporting details
• Identify and produce rhyme
• Associate consonant digraph ch with the phonetic element /ch/
• Sequence and capitalize days of the week
• Understand and form compound words

Materials

• Book – Getting Ready for School (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence, consonant digraph ch, days of the week, compound words worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

    Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: some, the, they, to, with
• Content words: backpacks, breakfast, everywhere, friends, Monday, paper, pencils, Sunday, teeth