Text Summary
The four Monsters love their wheels. They ride their bike, skateboard, roller blades, and unicycle all over. But then winter comes, and they have to put their wheels away. They go shopping, and Lurk decides to buy a shovel so they can get rid of the snow on the trail and ride their wheels again.

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
Use context clues and picture clues to work out meanings of words
Sound out unfamiliar words using known sound/symbol correspondences
Look for familiar word chunks within larger word chunks
Reread for sense

Word and Print Skills

Phonological Awareness
Onset and rime
Phonics
Consonant-vowel-consonant-e long vowel pattern
Word Work
Inflectional ending -ing

High-Frequency Words
are, love, when, they  

Comprehension
Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Identify problem and solution
Analyze character