Book Summary
All About Chocolate is an informational book that is sure to make the reader's mouth water. Interesting facts about the history of chocolate, where and how cacao trees are grown, and the steps taken to make chocolate into candy are included. A "chocolate" timeline and consumption chart by country provide additional details.

Book and lesson also available at Levels O and U.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make connections to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making connections to prior knowledge to understand text
• Sequence events
• Identify simple and complete subjects and predicates
• Make and confirm or revise predictions about the meanings of content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- All About Chocolate (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence events, subjects and predicates, content vocabulary worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: cacao, conching, consume, fermentation, ingredients, machete, mills, mole, plantations