Book Summary
In Does It Sink or Float? students have the opportunity to use what they know about familiar objects to determine whether each will sink or float in water. Interesting photographs are included to enhance student understanding of the concepts sink and float. Repetitive phrases and high-frequency words support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Identify the author's purpose
• Discriminate initial consonant blend /fl/ sound
• Identify initial consonant blend fl
• Recognize, identify, and use question marks
• Understand, use, and write the high-frequency word will

Materials

• Book -- Does It Sink or Float? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, initial consonant blend fl, question marks worksheets
• Discussion cards

     Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: look, or, some, these, which, will
• Content words: apple, float, golf, marble, penny, sink, water, watermelon