Objective: Students will use simple strategies to determine meaning and increase vocabulary for reading including the use of multiple meaning, synonyms, antonyms and word relations.

Objective: Students will read text and determine the main idea, identify relevant supporting details and facts and arranges events in chronological order.

*  sentence strips that depict events of the story

*  computer

Working with words: Vocabulary to be covered within assessment.

Activity: The teacher will...

1. begin lesson by reviewing vocabulary words and definitions

2. administered Vocabulary Test (10 minutes)

3. review story by giving 10 different students sentence strips that depict events from the story

4. have students place them in sequential order and discuss

5. administered Sequencing Test (20 minutes)

6. have the students go to PuzzleMaker and create crossword puzzles and word searches using selected vocabulary words from the entire unit