About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify the main idea and supporting details
• Understand plural nouns with -s and -es endings
• Identify and form compound words

Materials

• Book -- Introducing Planet Earth (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, plural nouns, compound words 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

• Content words: Antarctica, continents, creatures, depend, equator, introducing, latitude, longitude, Mercury, North and South Poles, Pluto, rotating, seasons, solar system, tilted, unevenly