Book Summary
Terell is a fussy eater. He eats the same foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. On Thanksgiving, Terell realizes none of his favorite foods are on the table. What will he eat? His grandmother knows how to solve the problem. What will she do? Terell's Taste Buds provides the opportunity to introduce story elements. Pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Identify story elements
• Discriminate initial and final consonant digraph /ch/
• Identify initial and final consonant digraph ch
• Identify and use exclamation marks
• Understand how to alphabetize words to the second letter

Materials

• Book -- Terell's Taste Buds (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Story elements, consonant digraph /ch/, exclamation marks, alphabetical order worksheets
• Discussion cards

     Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: ate, every, said, that, they, this, with
• Content words: breakfast, dinner, fussy, habits, lunch, taste buds