Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making predictions and then revising or confirming them to understand and remember events in a fictional story
• Draw conclusions
• Discriminate r-controlled vowel sounds
• Understand and identify r-controlled vowels
• Understand and identify quotation marks
• Understand and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Beanie and the Missing Bear (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Conclusions, r-controlled vowels, quotation marks 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: my, I, in, that, on, the, it
• Content words: Beanie, detective, mysteries (mystery), sister, Clare, bear, chair, Chomps, Danny, blanket, strange