About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Classify information
• Discriminate medial long sounds /a/ (cake) and long /i/ (pile)
• Recognize VCe long vowel patterns in print and read simple VCe long vowel words
• Recognize quotation marks at the beginning and end of dialogue
• Identify and understand the use of the high-frequency word put

Materials

• Book -- Happy Birthday, Snag! (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Classify information, picture cards, VCe words, quotation marks 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

• High-frequency words: do, have, I, in, put, the, yes, you
• Content words: balloons, birthday, cake, candles, party, presents