Book Summary
In Friends in the Stars, a mother dog and her pup play a game with the stars while sitting in the backyard. Students will enjoy connecting the numbered dots (stars) on each page to reveal the different pictures Momma and Puppy are seeing in the stars. Along with creative illustrations, early readers are supported by high-frequency words and a repeated phrase throughout the story.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Categorize parts of the story into reality and fantasy
• Demonstrate how to blend phonemes
• Name words that contain the s-blends
• Identify and create interrogative sentences
• Recognize and use high-frequency words

Materials

• Book -- Friends in the Stars (copy for each student)
• Dry erase board or interactive white board
• Reality/fantasy, S-blends, question words, interrogative sentence worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: an, at, away, down, from, I, little, look, me, pretty, see, what, white, with, you
• Content word: stars