About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
• Analyze characters in text
• Identify and understand the use of pronouns
• Recognize the difference between homophones there and their

Materials

• Book -- Samson: A Horse Story (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Summarize, analyze characters, pronouns 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: bridle, coop, family tree, galloping, graze, groomed, manure, pointers, realized, reins, saddle horn, stirrup, tend to, trough