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

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make connections to prior knowledge

Objectives

• use prior knowledge of a topic to make connections and understand nonfiction text
• classify information in nonfiction text
• orally manipulate medial sounds
• identify spellings for the sound of long /i/
• recognize plural nouns formed by adding –-s and -es
• recognize and use content vocabulary.

Materials

• Book – Summer Olympics Events (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Classification, Long I, Content Vocabulary worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable.)

Vocabulary

• High frequency words: are, is, one
• Content words: athletes, gymnasts, marathon, synchronized