About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to better understand the text
• Identify story elements
• Recognize and use singular possessive nouns
• Recognize and understand the use of homophones

Materials

• Book -- Meeting Father in Plymouth (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, story elements, possessive nouns, homophones 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: belongings, experiences, Handmaid, harvest, limited, mature, planters, Plymouth, Puritans, reunion, settlement, tending