About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
• Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
• Read measurements and abbreviations fluently
• Recognize and use synonyms and antonyms
• Use a thesaurus

Materials

• Book -- Natural Wonders of the World (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Summarize, cause and effect, 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: breeding, cinder cones, downstream, erosion, fissure, geologists, Havasupai, Himalayas, landforms, mountaineers, plateau, plunge pool, polyps, Sherpa, species, yeti, Zimbabwe