About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand nonfiction text
• Sequence events
• Understand the use of a dash as punctuation
• Identify and use homophones

Materials

• Book -- Marco Polo and the Silk Road (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• Ask and answer questions, sequence events, dash, 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: ancient, astonished, authority, camel caravans, Christianity, conquest, dynasty, empire, famous, foreigners, journeys, memoir, merchants, mysterious, steppe