About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate r-controlled /ur/
• Identify r-controlled /ur/ letter combination ur
• Identify pronouns and the nouns they stand for
• Understand how to place words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- Tian Tian, a Giant Panda (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• KWL, main idea and details, r-controlled /ur/, pronouns 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: about, came, have, like, live, their, they, this, when, where
• Content words: bamboo, bear, China, forests, giant panda, special, survive, Tian Tian, weighs, wild, zoo