Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge 

Objectives

• Connect life experiences and use prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Manipulate initial sound in words
• Locate and read words that contain r-controlled vowels when the vowel e precedes the r
• Locate and categorize nouns
• Understand and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Earth’s Water (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea/details, nouns, content vocabulary worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

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: of, are, when
• Content words: clouds, Earth, evaporation, freezes, gas, invisible, liquid, melts, polluted, rain, solid, water