About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to better understand text
• Identify literary genres
• Identify similes
• Use synonyms

Materials

• Book -- The Great Gallardo's Books (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board, thesauruses and/or dictionaries
• Identify genres, similes, 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: awe, biography, breeches, confetti, contraptions, crater, high-tech, intimate, laboratory, lasso, perilous, plastered, resort, sagebrush, science fiction, skeleton key, transported, Western