How Is the Weather Today?
Level F
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count : 180

Book Summary
How is the Weather Today? introduces readers to various types of weather that occur during each season. The text discusses typical activities and clothing for each type of weather. Supportive illustrations accompany the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the strategy of visualization to understand and remember factual information
• Identify characteristics of setting
• Segment onset from rime
• Locate and read words that begin and end with the /ch/ sound
• Locate and read nouns in text
• Identify and form compound words

Materials

• Book -- How is the Weather Today? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Setting, nouns, compound words worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

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: how, know, me, say, want, will
• Content words: blow, clothes, cold, fall, hot, icy, important, rain, seasons, showers, snow, spring, stormy, summer, today, warm, weather, weatherman, windy, winter