About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Make inferences
• Identify and use complex sentences
• Identify and use homophones

Materials

• Book -- The Blues: More Than a Feeling (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL, make inferences, complex sentences, homophones 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: blues, call and response, composer, emotion, express, Great Depression, notes, performance, phonograph, plantation, pseudonym, rhythm, slaves, vaudeville