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
• Sequence events
• Discriminate vowel diphthong /ou/ and long /o/ digraph sounds
• Recognize and correctly read words with the same spelling pattern but different sounds: diphthong /ou/ and long /o/ digraph
• Identify and understand the use of adjectives
• Identify time and order words (after, soon, then, now, first, just then)

Materials

• Book -- Monster Snow Day (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards, sentence strips
• Prediction, sequence events, vowel diphthong and digraph, adjectives 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: are, into, like, make, them, you, there
• Content words: cold, gray, skis, sky, snowballs, snowflakes, snowstorm