Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in a nonfiction text
• Compare and contrast information
• Manipulate medial sounds
• Recognize spellings for long /e/
• Understand and identify pronouns as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases
• Understand and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Hibernation (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Compare and contrast, pronouns, vocabulary worksheets

   Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students consume the books.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: many, have, some, its, they, their
• Content words: scarce, hibernate (hibernating), breathing, underground, burrows, winter