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 text
• Analyze the characters in the text
• Understand the use of adverbs with the suffix -ly and -ily
• Understand the use of synonyms in the text

Materials

• Book -- Carlos's Puzzle (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, analyze characters, adverbs, synonyms 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: 3-D, acres, anticipation, boundaries, crossroads, dilemma, disorient, expert, impossible, invigorated, junction, labyrinth, masterpiece, strategy