About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in nonfiction text
• Classify information
• Blend phonemes
• Identify and use the consonant digraph sh
• Understand and identify question marks
• Understand and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Community Workers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Pencils, crayons or markers, paper or card stock
• Classify information, question marks, content vocabulary 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: are, he, in, is, she, this, who
• Content words: community, deliver, doctor, firefighter, healthy, hose, mail carrier, safe, thermometer, workers