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
• Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
• Recognize and use adverbs with the suffix -ly
• Identify and understand the use prefix un- and suffix -ful

Materials

• Book -- Alice's Birthday Cake (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, cause and effect, adverbs, prefix and suffix 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: blackout, canned goods, disappointed, ration book, responsibility, sacrifices, scrap, shipped out, warden