Phoneme awareness review. Only oral blending practice is provided, without instruction in the phoneme. Components of phonics lesson. The teacher models spelling the illustrated words bike, dime, five, etc., but no practice activity for students follows. Decodability of practice texts.
Students prepare to read by suggesting safety rules, a theme of the story.
They read a single-page article on safety officers to build background knowledge. The teacher guides students to derive the meaning of audience and attention from context clues. After two lessons of reading the main text, students read a related nonfiction narrative about a famous dog. Such related reading takes advantage of active concepts to further extend reading practice, a valuable fluency teaching strategy. A lesson on summarization.