Book Summary
Denise is bored. It is winter vacation, and she is out of things to do. While she is waiting for it to snow, she does puzzles and reads books. How will Denise stay busy while waiting for the snow? Winter Vacation provides the opportunity to introduce problem and solution to early readers. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Identify problem and solution
• Discriminate variant vowel /oo/
• Identify variant vowel oo
• Identify and use quotation marks
• Understand and use high-frequency words she and her

Materials

• Book -- Winter Vacation (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Problem and solution, variant vowel oo, quotation marks, game cards 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: does, gets, her, play, says, she
• Content words: arrive, bored, direction, ideas, microphone, neighborhood, squeals, vacation