About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retelling

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember fictional text
• Understand and identify character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions
• Use quotation marks
• Recognize and use sensory words

Materials

• Book -- Talking to Each Other (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Character analysis, sensory words worksheets

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if you choose not to have students consume the books.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: radioactive, Cameron