Ready-to-teach lesson
Analyze Author's Craft
ABC Letters in the Library - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Use the punctuation at the bottom of a page to decide whether to stop reading or carry on over the turn.
PRODUCT
Boxes for the two halves of each sentence, joined, with the punctuation mark copied in Essential question: How do you know when a page ends but the sentence does not?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The four pages copied in order
- Prepared passages: Passage 8, Passage 9, Passage 10, Passage 11, Passage 12
- Passage 8 - a teacher with a finger to her lips, teenagers sprawled at a table
- Passage 9 - a boy carrying a cardboard box of books
- Passage 10 - a woman in red shelving books from a trolley
- Passage 11 - families walking away from the library, books under their arms
Lesson sequence
1 Stop or keep going - 4 min
- Passage 12 - a child asleep in bed, an open book beside the pillow
- Focus:
- Two marks, two instructions
- Teacher model:
- Read a page ending in a full stop and one ending in a comma.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8, Passage 9 2 Join them up - 8 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write these two pages out as one sentence with the joining mark.
- Expected answer:
- One sentence: the donated books are what the volunteers then put into place. A comma joins the two halves.
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- Prepared text:
- Passage 9, Passage 10 3 The other one - 3 min
- Teacher direction:
- Find the other place a sentence carries over the turn.
- Expected answer:
- The one about youngsters shuffling home, which finishes with pages becoming pillows.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 11, Passage 12
Support & extension
Above: Explain why an author would split one sentence over a page turn instead of finishing it.
Below: Point at the mark at the end of each page and say stop or keep going.
Assessment
- Names the comma as the reason for carrying on
- Reads the two halves as one sentence
- Notices the second page cannot start a sentence on its own
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