About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
• Identify elements of a biography
• Identify and use complex sentences
• Understand the use of synonyms and antonyms

Materials

• Book -- Female Sports Stars (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Summarize, complex sentences, synonyms and antonyms 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: bone marrow, commemorate, dedicate, dominated, doubles, excel, legacy, singles, scholarships, spectators, strenuous, tourniquet, transplant