About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Sequence events
• Identify and discriminate final -er sound in words
• Recognize and write -er r-controlled vowel letter combination in words
• Recognize and understand the use of proper nouns
• Identify time and order words

Materials

• Book -- Monsters' Stormy Day (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Sequence events, r-controlled vowels, proper nouns 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, day, do, my, out, some, then, they, we, will, you
• Content words: circus, cowboys, flashlight, lightning, monsters, oval, shadow puppets, stormy, thunder