Book Summary
The 100^th Day Project is a story about a young girl who is assigned a special homework project for the 100^th day of school. Leticia needs to fill a large piece of paper with 100 things. However, she doesn't want to fill her paper with just anything; she wants it to be special. Her mother and brother help her come up with something fantastic, and it becomes the favorite project of the class. Illustrations support the text.

Book and lesson also available at Levels I and L.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
• Sequence events in a story
• Identify and fluently read the /sh/ consonant digraph
• Identify adjectives and the nouns they describe
• Read and identify the correct use of cardinal and ordinal numbers

Materials

• Book -- The 100^th Day Project (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Summarize, sequence events, adjectives, number words worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: blurted, brainstorm, celebrate, conceive, creativity, grid, highlight, informed, miniature, smirked, undoubtedly