About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand and remember informational text
• Identify main ideas and details
• Recognize adverbs and the verbs they describe
• Understand and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Get Moving! All About Muscles (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL, content vocabulary 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: Achilles tendon, deltoid, fascicles, gastrocnemius, gluteus maximus, hamstring, involuntary muscles, masseter, myofibril, quadriceps, sartorius, stapedius, temporalis, trapezius