About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to make meaning from text
• Identify author's purpose
• Identify colons and semicolons used in text
• Recognize proper nouns

Materials

• Book -- Miltie Math-head: Football Hero? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Predictions, author's purpose, proper nouns 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: angles, arc, competitors, dawdle, grid, intersect, line of scrimmage, odds, offensive line, parallel, perpendicular, physics, plays, quarterbacks, self-confidence