About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions before, during, and after reading
• Identify problem and solution
• Understand and use adverbs that compare
• Understand synonyms and antonyms

Materials

• Book -- Ants in My Bed (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Ask and answer questions, adverbs that compare, synonyms and antonyms 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: abdomen, cedar shakes, cocoons, colony, dismay, larvae, moat, nodes, obstacle, pupae, saliva, steamboats, thorax, tide