Swimming - Let's Play Sports!

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Content Areas

Grade

Lesson

Skills to Teach
• HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS: go, he, in, let’s, she,
the, to, we
• CONTENT WORDS: dives, floats, jump, kicks, pool,
swim(s), swimsuits, wear
• PUNCTUATION: exclamation points, periods
• WORD STUDY: compound word (swimsuits); /k/,
spelled ck (kicks); long /o/, spelled oa (floats);
/oo/, spelled oo (pool); r-controlled vowels (wear)
• TEXT TYPE: factual description
Before Reading Activities
• Read the title and give a simple statement
of the main idea.
• Have students “walk” through the book and
talk about what they see in the pictures.
• Introduce new vocabulary by having students
predict the first letter and locate the word in the text.
• Discuss any unfamiliar concepts that are in the text.
After Reading Activities
On pages 4–5, five swimmers jump into the pool.
Ask readers to note the colors of their swimsuits.
Have any of the readers gone swimming before?
What colors were their swimsuits? Write each color
on the board. Make a tally mark for each color.
At the end, count the marks. What color has
the most tally marks?