Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Summarize important information in text
• Sequence events
• Understand and use articles
• Use a dictionary to look up content words

Materials

• Book -- Satellites (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board, student dictionaries
• Sequencing, articles, dictionary 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: astronomical, black holes, eavesdrop, evolution, galaxies, high-tech, infrared, innovative, light rays, mobile, monitor, observational, robots, soft-land, stationary