Book Summary
The residents of the White House include not only presidents and their families, but also their pets. This informational text introduces readers to some of the interesting pets that have lived in the White House and to some of the animals that were given to presidents as gifts. Students will learn that the White House has been home to not only dogs and cats, but farm animals, woodland creatures, and even an alligator.

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Making, revising, and confirming predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, confirming or revising predictions to understand informational text
• Understand and identify main ideas and details
• Segment words into syllables
• Associate vowel digraphs with the long e sound
• Read and write the plural form of some nouns
• Sort content vocabulary words into categories

Materials

• Book – White House Pets (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea/details, plural and category worksheets

    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: went, they, lived
  
• Content words: White House, president, daughter, grandchildren, pets, dogs, cats, birds, horses, sheep, raccoon, snake, goats, squirrel, bears, alligator, elephants, lions, tiger, hippo, zoo, garden, grass