Book Summary
Jupe loves to read and visits the library each Saturday. She picks out books about pirates, whales, and ants. Soon it is time to go home, but Jupe has a problem. The stack of books is too heavy for her to carry. What will she do? Monster Reading Buddies provides the opportunity for students to retell the story and investigate cause-and-effect relationships. Pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Identify cause and effect
• Discriminate short /a/
• Identify short Aa
• Identify and use verbs
• Understand how to alphabetize words

Materials

• Book -- Monster Reading Buddies (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Cause and effect, short /a/, verbs worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: her, looks, read, says, then, this, will
• Content words: asks, heavy, library, pirate, stacks, wagon, whale, window