Book Summary
Have you noticed how people decorate their bodies in different ways? In addition to clothing and hairstyles, people have many ways of adorning their bodies. Body art has been practiced since the beginning of time. Readers will learn about some of the ways people around the world create body art. Engaging photographs support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Main idea and details
• Identify and understand the use of complex sentences
• Identify the meanings of suffixes -al and -ion

Materials

• Book -- Body Art (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Ask and answer questions, main idea and details, complex sentences, suffixes worksheets

     Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: adorning, ancestral, anthropologists, blemishes, conform, culture, elongated, ethnic, individuality, intricate, permanent, pigments, prehistoric, rite of passage, spiritual, status, temporary, unique