Book Summary
When I Grow Up is a story about a little girl who frequently questions her parents about when she will be allowed to do things on her own. Charming illustrations, a repeated sentence pattern, and familiar experiences make this an enjoyable book for early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions based on text information
• Identify characters and setting
• Segment onset and rime
• Identify and read words with r-family blends
• Identify dialogue and quotation marks
• Read compound words

Materials

• Book -- When I Grow Up (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, characters and setting, r-family blends worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

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: when, said, are, you
• Content words: late, anything, eat, stay, shopping, by, myself, movies, alone, drive, job, cookies, milk