About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand the text
• Analyze characters in the text
• Understand the use of a dash as punctuation
• Identify similes

Materials

• Book -- Miltie Math-head Takes the Mound (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, analyze characters, dash, similes 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: abysmal, calculations, computations, decimals, dibs, earned-run average, ego, lowest common denominator, mound, statistician, substitution, thousandth place, ratio, ump, umpire, windup