Book Summary
In What Is in the Box?, a boy takes a box to be mailed. Find out where the box goes and what happens to it along the way. Repetitive text, supportive pictures, and high-frequency words make this book perfect for emerging readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand the story
• Make inferences
• Discriminate final sound /n/
• Identify final consonant Nn
• Identify and classify nouns
• Recognize alliteration with the /b/ sound

Materials

• Book -- What Is in the Box? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Inference, final consonant Nn, nouns 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: and, big, box, brown, gets, goes, what
• Content words: dropped, knocks, mail, placed, smashed, Special Delivery, stamped, torn, tossed