About the Lesson   

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Ask and answer questions to understand nonfiction text
• Identify the main idea and supporting details in informational text
• Blend phonemes into words
• Identify and read words with ou and ow diphthongs
• Identify and read the plural form of words
• Categorize content vocabulary

  Materials

• Book -- Discovering Dinosaurs (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Comprehension, plural forms, word cards worksheets
• Fossil(s) or pictures of fossil(s)
• Word journal (optional)

   Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students consume the books.) 

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: are, about, have, know, of, other, some, will
• Content words:  fossil, dinosaurs, skeleton, animals, humans, Earth, world, scientist, bones, footprints, teeth, nests, eggs, museums