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
• Analyze characters in the text
• Identify and understand the use of pronouns
• Alphabetize content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- The Little Fir Tree (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, analyze characters, pronouns, alphabetical order 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: adventures, bothersome, boughs, evergreen, finery, fir, flitting, glorious, ignored, magical, marveled, ornaments, sprigs, trembled, waning, waxing