About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Identify story elements
• Discriminate medial long /i/ vowel sound
• Recognize VCe long /i/ vowel pattern in print and read simple VCe long /i/ vowel words
• Understand and identify pronouns as substitutes for nouns
• Understand how to place words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- Monster Music (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, story elements, VCe long /i/, pronouns 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: day, give, has, let, like, make, one, own, see, she, you
• Content words: beautiful, bench, earn, music, piano, plink, plunk, quiet, sell, shoppers, sing, slide, song, store, storeowner, together, toy