About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Self-monitor

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of self-monitoring
• Compare and contrast this retelling with the classic story
• Understand paragraph formation
• Identify descriptive words and the nouns they describe

Materials

• Book -- Three Little Pigs: The Wolf's Story (copy for each student); classic version of The Three Little Pigs
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Self-monitor, compare and contrast, descriptive words 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: delirious, desperate, frostbitten, inherited, modern, ordeal, quaint, sapped, sturdy, unconscious, vegetarian, village, swine, familiar, pity, scurried, pleaded, teetered, misunderstanding