About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand informational text
• Identify author's purpose
• Identify and understand compound predicates
• Recognize and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book – Threats to Our Atmosphere (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL chart, compound predicates, content vocabulary 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: atmosphere, atoms, chemicals, constant, contributor, decomposes, fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse effect, molecules, pollutants, precipitation, ultraviolet