About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
• Draw conclusions using context clues
• Identify compound sentences in the text
• Recognize and use synonyms and antonyms; identify antonyms and synonyms using a thesaurus

Materials

• Book -- Sister Sleuth and the Silver Blaze (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Summarize, compound 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: carriage, colleague, depression, detour, disguised, Gypsies, memoirs, moor, obsessed, overactive, sleuth, tracks, tweed, vaguely, villa