My Room Level A
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 32

Book Summary
The familiar setting of a child's bedroom puts readers at ease as they read new vocabulary, naming the objects they find in their own rooms. Students will learn to link pictures they recognize with unfamiliar words.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Connect to prior knowledge to make meaning from text
• Compare and contrast information
• Discriminate the /r/ sound
• Associate the letter Rr with the sound /r/
• Understand that some words name things
• Categorize words

Materials

• Book -- My Room (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Compare and contrast, initial consonant Rr worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

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: here, is, are, my
• Content words: room, bed, desk, fish, books, toys, shoes, clothes