About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand the text
• Identify author's purpose
• Understand and use compound adjectives
• Identify and form similes

Materials

• Book -- Word Smith, Private I (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, author's purpose, compound adjectives, similes 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: anagram, clause, consonant, dangling participle, fink, grammar, heiress, literal, modifier, palindrome, phonics, pun, red-letter, simile, splitting infinitives, spoonerisms, stickler, subordinate, syntax