Book Summary
Anyone who has ever been lost will understand how Gordon feels on the first day at his new school. He knows he is supposed to go to music class, but he can’t remember how to get there. However, Gordon’s a resourceful little guy who asks for directions and then follows them! An easily recognizable problem together with a simple solution makes this an excellent book for introducing the concepts of problem/solution and direction. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, and confirm or revise predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making predictions and then confirming or revising them to understand and remember a fiction story
• Identify problem and solution
• Blend onset and rime
• Associate nt, nd, and nk with the phonetic elements /nt/ /nd/ /nk/
• Understand that quotation marks are used to identify a speaker’s words
• Understand and use often-confused words

Materials

• Book – Gordon Finds His Way (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Problem and solution, final n blends 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: go, he, on
• Content words: Gordon, hall, bell, music, class, new, first, floor, classroom, stairs, worried, right, left, art, thanked, hurried, Mr. Lewis, smiled