About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
• Analyze characters
• Identify interesting verbs in text
• Recognize multiple-syllable words

Materials

• Book -- Anansi and the Talking Watermelon (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, character traits, syllables worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: salivated, shimmied, gorged, pondered, absurd, Eureka, to and fro, realizing, Raccoon, Gopher, Squirrel, oddity, grizzly, Possum, acres, unison, treacherous, skittered, rejoiced, furiously