Josh Gets Glasses Level F
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count : 183

Book Summary
In Josh Gets Glasses, a boy named Josh finds out that he needs glasses. Josh is not happy about the prospect of wearing glasses because he's afraid he'll look silly. Josh's eye doctor explains that wearing glasses helps people perform their jobs more successfully and helps children do better in school. In the end, Josh decides that he might like wearing glasses after all.

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 problem and solution in a story
• Orally segment words into syllables
• Read and write l-family blends
• Locate and categorize nouns
• Read and understand compound words

Materials

• Book -- Josh Gets Glasses (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Magnetic letters
• Problem and solution, nouns 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: better, help, some, them
• Content words: glasses, people, eye doctor, basketball player, police officer, airplane pilot, cowboy, firefighter, friends, cattle, score, basket, fires, buildings