About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge
• Identify main details
• Manipulate initial sounds
• Identify s-family blends
• Identify and understand describing words in text
• Recognize, write, and understand the use of high-frequency words this and these

Materials

• Book -- Whose Eggs Are These? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, s-family blends, adjectives 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: whose, they, these, this
• Content words: twigs, robin, spiny, butterfly, case, spider, penguin, feathers, shark, frog, tadpoles