About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
• Identify details to compare and contrast microbes and bacteria
• Recognize comparative and superlative adjectives
• Understand how to read pronunciations in parentheses

Materials

• Book -- Microbes: Friend or Foe? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Content vocabulary, summarize, compare and contrast, comparative and superlative adjectives 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: antibiotics, contaminated, disease, epidemic, eradicated, immune system, infections, lactose, microscope, mutate, nutrients, organisms, outbreak, pandemic, parasites, resistances, vaccines, vulnerable