About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
• Sequence events
• Understand and use prepositions within sentences
• Identify how the suffix -ion changes the meaning of words

Materials

• Book -- Wildlife Rescue (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Summarize, sequence events, prepositions, suffixes 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: ambassadors, disaster, fledgling, flight cage, habitats, imprint, incubator, nocturnal, orphaned, predators, quarantined, rehabbers, release, rescue, urban, veterinarians, volunteers