Noise in the Night Level L
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 537

Book Summary
Noise in the Night is about two boys who love to play in a tent they have set up in the backyard. One night, they decide to sleep in the tent for the first time. They awaken suddenly to a loud noise but are unable to identify its source until they search the tent next to them. The story ending will amuse children.

Reader Supports

• Repetition of target vocabulary
  
• Good text/picture correspondence
  
• Engaging topic for young children
  

Reader Challenges

• Increased vocabulary
  
• No predictable sentence structure
  
• Punctuation
  

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
Children should use a variety of strategies to determine word meaning and comprehend text. The targeted strategy for this lesson is: Predicting.

Word and Print Skills
Phonics
Vowel digraphs or vowel teams

Word Work
Inflectional ending -ed and -ing

Grammar
Verbs

Comprehension Strategies
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as children work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: Using Think-Alouds.

Visual Learning
Helping children to develop an understanding of the importance of noticing picture details will increase their word recognition, fluency, and story comprehension.

Target Vocabulary Words
Content Words
Manuel, played, sandwiches, brought, tent, Jason, Baxter, noise, whispered, frantically, shook, quietly, snore, awfully