Book Summary
Bonk and Lurk are at the playground. Lurk pushes Bonk very high on the swing. Everything is fine until Bonk's hands slip and he falls to the ground, breaking his leg. Now Lurk must help Bonk until he recovers. Find out how Lurk feels about helping Bonk. Pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify cause and effect
• Discriminate initial consonant digraph sound /ch/
• Identify initial consonant digraph ch
• Recognize and use exclamation points
• Identify and use synonyms

Materials

• Book -- A Broken Leg for Bonk (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, consonant digraph ch, exclamation points worksheets

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

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: again, asks, gives, help, please, says, you
• Content words: accepted, apology, bossy, broken, doctor, giant, playground, swing, tumbles