Book Summary
What do we want? What do we really need? Students will learn the difference between requirements and desires in this helpful leveled reader. The text uses familiar situations that students easily connect to, and the illustrations cleverly show how we often wish for what we want even as we get what we need. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect life experience and use prior knowledge

Objectives

• Classify and categorize text information
• Identify final n-blends /nd/, /nk/, and /nt/
• Associate the letters nd, nk, and nt with the phonetic elements /nd/, /nk/, and /nt/
• Recognize adjectives as words that describe
• Use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book - Needs and Wants (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Classification, N-blend Endings, Content Vocabulary worksheets
• Set of nd, nk, and nt ending blend cards for each student

     Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (all activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: home, need, some, things, want
• Content words: breathe, clothing, coat, dinner, drink, kite, lemonade, pasta, storm, winter