Infer a Print-Feature Rule

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Infer a Print-Feature Rule

ABC Letters in the Library - Grade 1 - Short lesson

TIME

OBJECTIVE

PRODUCT

15 minutes Work out the rule the book follows when it decides which letters to Rows of words from a page, print in colour, including the part that has an exception. sorted into coloured and not coloured, with the rule written underneath Essential question: Why is one letter coloured in and another one just like it left black?

Materials

Text to mark

• The book, on a screen the whole class can see Two • Passage 4 - a girl lying on an open book, a

globe above her pages copied in colour

• Passage 7 - a boy with both arms up beside a woman holding a book

• Prepared passages: Passage 4, Passage 7,

• Passage 8 - a teacher with a finger to her lips, teenagers sprawled at Passage 8 a table

Lesson sequence

1 Not just anywhere - 4 min

Focus:

A counter-example on the page itself

Teacher model:

Find the word on this page that has the letter but is not coloured, and say where the letter sits.

Prepared text:

Passage 4 2 Sort the words - 6 min

Teacher direction:

Mark which words on this page have the letter coloured, and say what those words share.

Expected answer:

quietly and questions are coloured and both begin with q. Inquisitive has a q inside and stays black.

Prepared text:

Passage 7 3 The one that breaks it - 5 min

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Teacher direction:

Find the word here that starts with the letter and is still black, and say what kind of word it is.

Expected answer:

then - a small joining word, black even though it starts with t like Teachers, tsk and teens.

Prepared text:

Passage 8

Support & extension

Above: Write the rule as two sentences somebody could follow, then test both of them on a page nobody has looked at yet.

Below: On one page, point to the coloured letters and read out just those words.

Assessment

• Notices a word with the letter inside it left black

• Finds a word that starts with the letter and is still black

• Says the colour marks the words the sentence is built on

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