Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions
• Identify main ideas and details
• Recognize and understand the use of bold print
• Arrange words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- The Force of Water (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL, main idea/details, alphabetization 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: deltas, floodplain, groundwater, irrigate, pollute, nutrients, recedes, sediment, tributaries, watershed, water vapor, massive, transport