Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making connections to prior knowledge to understand nonfiction text
• Sequence events to gain understanding
• Identify past- and present-tense verbs
• Recognize and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Climbing Mountains: An Interview with Erik Weihenmayer (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence, verb tense, vocabulary worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students consume the books.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: avalanche, Braille, couloirs, crampons, crevasses, documentary, endurance, genetic, outcasts, sonar, terrain, vibration