Ready-to-teach lesson
Infer Character Motivation
And You Can Come Too - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Read the pages where Sara decides to run away and say what is odd about who she takes with her.
PRODUCT
Two boxes - what Sara says she is doing, and who ends up going with her - and a box for what Annie said first Essential question: Sara is running away from her family. So why does she invite her sister?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The three pages where Sara decides to go, copied out
- Prepared passages: Passage 3, Passage 4, Passage 5
Lesson sequence
1 I'm running away - 5 min
- Passage 3 - a girl running away, a man holding the smaller girl
- Passage 4 - a small girl holding a teddy bear
- Passage 5 - two girls dragging bags past two dogs
- Focus:
- A declaration made straight after a denial
- Teacher model:
- Read this page and ask what Daddy has just told her.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3 2 What Annie says - 6 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what Annie says, and what Sara does next.
- Expected answer:
- Annie loves Sara. And Sara packs six bags.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4 3 You can come too - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write who is going.
- Expected answer:
- Both of them - Sara says you can come too.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5
Support & extension
Above: Say why what Annie says is what gets her invited.
Below: Say how many bags Sara needed.
Assessment
- Quotes what Sara says she is doing
- Quotes what Annie says
- Says who ends up going, and why that is odd
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