Farm Animals Level aa
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 16

Book Summary
Farm Animals is a simple book that introduces seven charming farm animals, most of which will be familiar to the reader. The playful illustrations support one-to-one picture to text correspondence.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting life experiences and using prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Identify rhyme
• Recognize and make words with the short /i/ vowel sound
• Recognize that there are special words that name things
• Categorize information into groups

Materials

• Book -- Farm Animals (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, short /i/, categorize 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: dog, pig, chicken, goat, cow, duck, sheep, animals