About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand informational text
• Identify the similarities and differences between deciduous and coniferous trees
• Identify, create, and use contractions within sentences
• Identify, explain, and use metaphors

Materials

• Book -- About Trees (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Vocabulary, compare and contrast, contractions, metaphors 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: bark, branches, chlorophyl, conifers, deciduous, flowers, fruit, highways, leaves, nuts, nutrients, pinecone, pine nuts, protect, roots, sap, saplings, seed case, seeds, sprout, traffic, trunk