Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Visualize characters and events in text while reading
• Identify fact and opinion
• Understand and change present-tense verbs to past tense
• Understand and use homophones and homographs

Materials

• Book -- Horseshoes Aren’t Just For Good Luck (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Fact/opinion, past-tense verbs, homophones and homographs 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: burrow, dwellers, eroding, invertebrates, lulled, recedes, screeching, seashore, stranded, undersides