Book Summary
Who wouldn’t like to play in the rain during a spring shower? Or swim at the beach on a hot summer’s day? In this informational book, students will learn the seasons that these activities are usually associated with, as well as some of the characteristics of each season. Photographs of children enjoying seasonal activities such as carving a pumpkin and building a snowman 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
• Understand the main idea and identify details
• Identify and produce rhyme
• Associate vowel digraph ea with the phonetic element /ea/
• Understand that the word ending –-er can be used to compare things
• Understand and categorize seasonal content vocabulary words

Materials

• Book – The Four Seasons (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea/details and vowel digraph ea worksheets

    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: in, the, are
• Content words: spring, puddles, summer, longer, children, beach, cool, fall, leaves, faces, pumpkins, winds, colder, winter, shorter, snow, melts, seasons