Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make text-to-text connections

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making text-to-text connections in the Monster series to understand the story
• Identify main idea and details
• Orally substitute medial sounds
• Locate and read words that contain the ea vowel digraph and make the long /e/ sound
• Locate and read verbs with -ing endings
• Read high-frequency words in text

Materials

• Book Bonk’s New Bike (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, vowel digraph ea, high-frequency words worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are to be reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: new, their, will
• Content words: bike, business, dreams, handlebars, piggybank, pennies, money, people, spokes, walking