About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Mentally summarize details as they read, to remember and understand information in text
• Identify main ideas and supporting details in informational text
• Correctly use rules to make nouns plural
• Recognize, define and use compound words

Materials

• Book -- Celebrating Food and Family (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Vocabulary, main idea/details, plurals, worksheets
• Globe and/or world maps

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: ancestors, Chusok, etrog, persimmons, Sukkoth, synagogue, tortoises, yams, Nigeria, Korea, Israel, celebrations, traditions