About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions before and during reading
• Draw conclusions using context clues
• Identify and use contractions
• Understand the difference between past and present tense

Materials

• Book -- The Footprint (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, contractions, past tense 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: bank, creature, dinosaur, discovered, diving, expert, fossil, imprint, investigate, petrified, pored, professor, snorkel, surface, swim fins, webbed