About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand the text
• Make inferences
• Identify contractions used in the text
• Identify compound words used in the text

Materials

• Book -- Ghosts in the House (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, make inferences, contractions, compound words 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: annoyed, attic, cornhusks, cradle, devised, feverishly, fugitives, haunted, lullaby, rural, scolded, quilt, stationmasters, Underground Railroad, urgently