The City Level aa
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 17

Book Summary
The City introduces students to the vocabulary of things they might see in a city. The book pairs realistic artwork with simple text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use prior knowledge to make meaning from text
• Identify the main idea and details
• Discriminate initial sounds
• Associate the letter Pp with the sound /p/
• Understand that some words are naming words
• Categorize words

Materials

• Book -- The City (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, initial consonant Pp worksheets
• Sticky notes
• 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: the, big
• Content words: streets, cars, buses, stores, park, buildings, people, noise