Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize 

Objectives

• Summarize important information in text
• Identify main ideas and supporting details
• Identify prepositions and prepositional phrases
• Use a dictionary to look up content words

Materials

• Book -- Mysterious Caves (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board, student dictionaries
• Main idea/details, prepositional phrases, using the dictionary 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: cave pearl, column, draperies, erosional caves, glacier caves, helictite, lava tube caves, limestone caves, sea caves, soda straw, spelunkers, stalactite, stalagmite