Ask: What do you see on the cover? What do you think the book will be about?

Hand out the books and ask students to turn to and read the contents page.

Ask: What other information does this give us about what might be in the book?

Elicit Prior Knowledge and Build Background
Discuss with students what they already know about people who live in the desert.

Ask: What do you know about people who live in the desert? Have students turn to the glossary on page 18. Say: Please read the words on this page. Ask: Are there any words you do not know how to pronounce? Are there any words you do not know?

Skim and Scan
Have students turn to the contents page again.

Tell them that a contents page shows where they might find information on a particular subject within the book.

Ask: In what chapter might you find information on the Bedouin people? What page does that chapter start on?