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 consumer consumption chart provide additional details. This book is one of three multilevel readers.

Book and lesson also available at Levels O and R.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make connections to prior knowledge

Objectives

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

Materials

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

      Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

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