About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing information to understand and remember nonfiction text
• Classify information in text
• Blend phonemes
• Read words with /ou/ diphthongs
• Recognize and understand that quotation marks may be used to indicate spoken words or sounds
• Identify content vocabulary words

Materials

• Book -- Spring Is Here (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Classify Information, diphthongs, vocabulary 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: here, day(s), from, soon, will, they, comes, out
• Content words: garden, shoots, bulbs, wiggly, woods, buds, meadow, gophers, dandelion, pond, water lily