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 a nonfiction text
• Categorize information
• Blend phonemes
• Associate phonetic representation for r-, s-, and l- blends
• Use and identify collective nouns
• Understand and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Gaggle, Herd, and Murder (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Pencils, crayons or markers, paper or card stock
• Categorize information, blends, collective nouns 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, they, have, of, their, all, this
• Content words: gather, groups, geese, gaggle, together, colony, murder, crows, sunset, whales, pod, smack, jellyfish, zebras, herd, pack, wolves, humans, neighborhood