Friends Around the World Level H
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count : 198

Book Summary
Friends Around the World focuses on children from various countries around the world. All of the children in the book tell their names and where they live. They also share something about what they like to do for entertainment and a type of food they like to eat. Illustrations and a map support the text.

Book and lesson also available at Levels K and P.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Identify details to compare and contrast characters       
• Blend phonemes
• Recognize and read words with short /e/ vowel
• Recognize proper nouns
• Arrange words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- Friends Around the World (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• World map
• Visualize, compare and contrast, proper nouns, alphabetical order 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

• Content words: Australia, barbecued, Canada, kangaroos, ketchup, Moscow, Russia, silk, South Korea, Tanzania