Book Summary
Many things go wrong during Mike's day, both at home and at school. Every time something bad happens, someone helps him out. Mike discovers that it makes him feel good when others help him, so he learns to be helpful to others. Pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify cause and effect
• Discriminate final long /e/ vowel sound
• Identify y as a vowel
• Recognize and use suffix -ed
• Identify and locate examples of onomatopoeia

Materials

• Book -- Mike's Good Bad Day (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, open vowel y, suffix -ed 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: bad, good, his, need, said, that, was, you
• Content words: breakfast, carving, clumsy, festival, library, pumpkin, thanks, tripped, wrong