Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand informational text
• Identify main ideas and details in informational text
• Recognize and form plural nouns
• Recognize and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Ancient Cliff Dwellers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL chart, main idea/details, 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: adapt, adobe, ancestors, archaeologists, arid, artifacts, kiva, petroglyphs, pictographs, pit house, prehistoric, pueblo, sipapu