Ready-to-teach lesson
Infer a Speaker's Intended Meaning
And You Can Come Too - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
16 minutes Write down what Daddy says about himself each time, and then who actually gets the thing he offers.
PRODUCT
Rows for each offer, with a box for what Daddy says about himself and a box for who gets the thing Essential question: Daddy says he is hungry and he is sleepy. So why is he the one making the offers?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 7 - a man handing a torch into a blanket tent
- A row for each thing Daddy offers in the book
- Passage 8 - a man inside the tent with the two girls and a dog
- Prepared passages: Passage 7, Passage 8, Passage 9, Passage 10
Lesson sequence
1 It's getting late - 5 min
- Passage 9 - the girls eating in the tent, a teapot being poured
- Passage 10 - the same tent, the girls with cups and a bear
- Focus:
- A reason belonging to the wrong person
- Teacher model:
- Read this page and ask who needs the flashlights.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 7 2 Fill the rows - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what Daddy says about himself here, and who says yes.
- Expected answer:
- He says he is hungry. Sara says yes, please, with the crusts cut off.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8, Passage 9 3 The last offer - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write who is really sleepy on this page.
- Expected answer:
- Sara - the book says she is yawning.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 10
Support & extension
Above: Say why Daddy never once tells the girls to come back inside.
Below: Say what Daddy offers when he says he is getting hungry.
Assessment
- Records what Daddy says about himself each time
- Says who actually receives the thing
- Notices Daddy gives the reason as his own
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