About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions before and during reading
• Make inferences while reading
• Understand and identify adverbs
• Discriminate between apostrophes used as contractions and apostrophes used as possessives

Materials

• Book -- The Mystery Twin (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction and inference, adverbs, apostrophes 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: acquired, anticipated, bleaching, blustery, concisely, identical, indicator, fraternal, override, recite, sibling, traits