About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Classify information
• Discriminate initial sound /b/
• Identify initial consonant (b)
• Recognize and understand that nouns are naming words
• Recognize and write the high-frequency word the

Materials

• Book -- The Classroom (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards
• Picture cards, classify information, initial consonant b, 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 word: the
• Content words: backpack, book, classroom, chair, desk, eraser, paper, pencil