Book Summary
Summer Olympics Events is an informational book that describes some of the sports in which athletes compete during the Summer Olympic Games. Readers will learn about different types of water sports, gymnastics, and track and field events. Photographs help students make text-to-picture connections.

Book and lesson also available at Levels K and Q.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in a nonfiction text
• Classify information
• Manipulate medial sounds
• Identify spellings for the long /i/ sound
• Recognize plural nouns formed by adding -s and -es
• Understand and identify number words

Materials

• Book -- Summer Olympics Events (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• Classification, plural nouns, number words worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting the book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: are, can, from, have, one, use
• Content words: balance, divers, gymnasts, leap, Olympics, races, stroke(s)