Book Summary
Billy and Emmy are playing catch when suddenly Cat runs by. Billy chases after Cat. When Cat runs up a tree, Billy realizes he is lost. How will Billy ever get home? Perhaps some other animals will help him. Students are provided with the opportunity to identify cause-and-effect relationships. Readers are supported by illustrations, high-frequency words, and repetitive phrases throughout the book.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand the story and remember information
• Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
• Discriminate short /a/ vowel
• Identify words with short /a/ vowel
• Identify and use present-tense verbs
• Identify and use position words

Materials

• Book -- Billy Gets Lost (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Visualize, cause and effect, short /a/ vowel, verbs worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: and, asks, he, him, says, with
• Content words: Billy, chases, Emmy, farm, fetch, field, house, street