Book Summary
A police officer has many different jobs -- keeping people safe, enforcing laws, patrolling the streets, solving crimes, and more. Readers learn about what it takes to become a police officer and about the many aspects of a police officer's job.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand and learn information
• Identify main ideas and details in text
• Blend phonemes
• Identify and read r-controlled words
• Understand the use of commas
• Identify and understand compound words

Materials

• Book -- Police Officers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard, dry erase board, or chart paper
• Main idea and details, compound words 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: you, have, to, they, and, in, many
• Content words: officer, people, enforce, laws, patrol, crime, academy, uniform, traffic