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 -- The Message (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• World map
• 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: aerial, alias, askew, blackout, bunkers, clandestine, concealed, dictator, dispatched, fabricated, liberate, pungent, reinforcements, scrutinized, steeled, vacant, warily