Book Summary
A Clown Face outlines the steps involved in dressing up to look like a clown. Early readers will enjoy the detailed illustrations that correspond with the repetitive text pattern. They may even be inspired to use the book as a guide to dress up as a clown.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions based on text information
• Sequence events
• Discriminate medial sounds
• Read VCe long /a/ vowel words
• Recognize adjectives
• Identify words that indicate sequence

Materials

• Book -- A Clown Face (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Sequence events, VCe long /a/ worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

  Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students mark the books.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: then, next, first
• Content words: clown, face, mouth, smile, eyelids, eyebrows, cheeks, nose, jacket, shoes