About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand the story
• Identify the story elements of problem and solution
• Discriminate initial consonant blend sound /tr/
• Identify initial consonant blend tr
• Recognize and locate quotation marks
• List words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- What's for Dinner? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Problem and solution, initial consonant blend tr, 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: always, but, don't, eat, just, like, want, very
• Content words: bear, bending, bird, delicious, frog, giraffe, grass, hanging, hungry, leaves, otter, tongue, tried