Targeted Reading Strategy

• Self-monitoring

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of self-monitoring
• Recognize sequencing
• Identify and understand the use of quotation marks
• Recognize and use contractions

Materials

• Book -- The Best Guess (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequencing, quotation marks, contractions worksheets

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students consume the books.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: degrees, bar graph, column, data, guesses, tally mark, scan, temperature, certain