Book Summary
Hannah and Andy are building a town as a school project. They need people for the town, but they're trouble finding some they can use that are the right size. How will they solve their problem? Hannah's Townspeople provides picture and high-frequency support for early readers.

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/ sound
• Identify variant vowel combination oo
• Identify and use quotation marks
• Understand and identify synonyms

Materials

• Book -- Hannah's Townspeople (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Problem and solution, variant vowel oo, quotation marks 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: asked, had, I'm, make, need, said, their, too
• Content words: building, firefighters, people, shoppers, town, workers