Text Summary
The monsters visit a petting zoo and feed the animals. Everything appears to be going well until a goat escapes and follows them home. Now they are faced with the problem of getting a stubborn goat back to the zoo. Tag-along Goat is the perfect book to introduce story elements. Humorous pictures support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the strategy of retelling to understand and remember story events
• Identify story elements
• Discriminate initial consonant digraph /th/
• Identify initial consonant digraph th
• Identify and use contractions
• Understand and use high-frequency words there and their

Materials

• Book -- Tag-Along Goat (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Story elements, contractions, high-frequency words 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: back, doesn't, says, their, there, they
• Content words: animals, carrots, chicken, corn, donkey, empty, escapes, feed, gently, goats, notice, pocket, sprinkles, trail