What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
What Makes Me Happy?
Concept (nonfiction), 32 words, Level A (Grade K), Lexile BR20L
What things make you happy? What things make kids happy? What Makes Me Happy? is a fun book with colorful photographs detailing different things that make kids happy. Students will have the opportunity to identify cause-and-effect relationships as well as to connect to prior knowledge to understand and remember the book. Vivid photographs, repetitive phrases, and high-frequency words support early emergent readers.
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Lesson Resources
High-Frequency Words
make, me
Story Words
bubbles, friends, happy, make, swings, trains
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Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Connect to prior knowledge to understand text
Comprehension
Cause and Effect : Identify cause-and-effect relationships
Phonological Awareness
Final Consonants : Discriminate final consonant /s/ sound
Phonics
Consonants : Identify final consonant Ss
Grammar and Mechanics
Periods : Recognize and use periods
Word Work
Alphabetical Order : Understand and arrange words in alphabetical order
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
