Book Summary
From a simple canoe to a flashy cruise ship, students learn about all kinds of watercraft in this informative book. The book traces the history and development of boats and contains beautiful photographs.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand nonfiction text
• Compare and contrast information
• Discriminate long /o/ vowel sound
• Identify long /o/ vowel digraphs
• Identify and use adjectives
• Understand and use content vocabulary words

Materials

• Book -- Ships and Boats (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard, dry erase board, or chart paper
• Compare and contrast, 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: and, over, were, with, many, could
• Content words: poles, paddles, oars, sails, propeller, tanker, sailboat, tugboat, ferryboat, fireboat, submarines, aircraft carrier, cruise ships