About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Ask and answer questions to make sense of text
• Find details to compare and contrast butterflies and moths
• Identify antonyms for content vocabulary
• Alphabetize and define content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Butterflies and Moths (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board, thesauruses, dictionaries
• Compare and contrast, antonyms, 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: antennae, caterpillars, chrysalis, cocoon, exoskeleton, insects, invertebrates, larval, metamorphosis, molting, predators, pupal, species