About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
• Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
• Identify and use hyphenated compound adjectives
• Identify and use homophones

Materials

• Book -- Plight of the Polar Bear (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, compound adjectives, 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: fast, global warming, ingest, inhabitant, inhospitable, insulate, lichens, migrate, plight, pollutants, poses, prey, thrive, toxic