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 characters in the text
• Understand and use singular possessive nouns
• Recognize and use the suffix -ly for adverbs

Materials

• Book -- Sally's Secret Ambition (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, analyze characters, possessive nouns, adverbs 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: ambition, bandaging, deceived, field hospital, injured, lead, noble, operation, surgeon, tending, War Between the States