About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Sequence events in a story
• Understand the use of quotation marks to identify the dialogue of various speakers
• Understand how to read symbols, numbers, and abbreviations

Materials

• Book -- Sweet Potato Challenge (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Visualize; sequence events; quotation marks; symbols, numbers and abbreviations 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: alternate, arranged, broil, casserole, challenge, chefs, compete, mixture, recipe, sweet potato, thoroughly, tradition, unusual