About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Sequence events
• Segment onset and rime
• Identify initial consonant blend st
• Recognize and understand the use of quotation marks
• Recognize, understand, and use position words

Materials

• Book -- The Contest (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Prediction, sequence events, initial consonant blend st, quotation marks 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: away, both, have, now, said, than, went
• Content words: bench, break, contest, farther, farthest, mine, next, past, seed, spit