About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand informational text
• Identify cause-and-effect relationships in text
• Understand how to read symbols within numbers
• Recognize adjectives used in text

Materials

• Book -- The Sun (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, symbols, adjectives 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: fusion, matter, orbits, radiant energy, radiation, solar cells, solar flares, sunspots, thermonuclear reaction, ultraviolet waves