Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make connections to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making connections to prior knowledge
• Analyze changes in the setting
• Identify simple and compound subjects
• Recognize and use homonyms in sentences

Materials

• Book -- Running For Freedom (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Setting, simple and compound subjects, homonyms worksheets

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students consume the books.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: muttered, throbbing, plantation, inn, sagging, gully, scent, hounds, shackles, network, fugitive, activist, credited, flee