Book Summary
Students will enjoy reading about some of the many ways that extreme insects protect themselves in this descriptive, informational book. As they learn about insect attributes, such as size, color, and weaponry, students will discover how insects can keep from becoming food themselves.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand and remember new information in nonfiction text
• Identify main ideas and details
• Manipulate medial sound /oo/
• Compare and identify variant vowels
• Understand and recognize commas used to separate items in a list
• Understand and match synonyms

Materials

• Book -- Extreme Insects (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea/details, variant vowels, synonyms 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: are, they, have, many, as, them, these, this, like, their
• Content words: insects, enemies, traits, weapons, extreme, protect, caterpillar, poison