Ready-to-teach lesson
Whole-Book Plan
Animals Black and White - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
25 minutes Read the whole book as a set of riddles, guessing each animal before turning the page.
PRODUCT
Rows for each riddle, with a box for the class's guess and a box for the answer Essential question:
Every animal in this book is black and white. Does that make the riddles easier or harder?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 1 - black brush-stroke stripes on white
- A guess box and an answer box for each riddle in
- Passage 6 - a black brush-stroke plume against white
- • the book
- • Passage 9 - a penguin bending towards a grey chick
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 6, Passage 9, Passage 11
Lesson sequence
1 Before reading - 4 min
- Passage 11 - a butterfly on a hibiscus flower
- Focus:
- A list to check the book against
- Teacher direction:
- Ask the class to name black and white animals and write the list up.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1, Passage 6, Passage 9, Passage 11 2 Read it through - 12 min
- Focus:
- A book that stops and asks
- Teacher model:
- Read the whole book, taking guesses at every question.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 3 The best clues - 9 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write the clue that gave this riddle away, and what the answer page added.
- Expected answer:
- The striped tail lifted like a warning flag. And on the other, a whole life story the clue page never hinted at.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 6, Passage 11
Support & extension
Above: Say which clue in a riddle you found most useful, and why.
Below: Say what you guessed for the first riddle.
Assessment
- Writes a guess before the page is turned
- Names the clue that settled it afterwards
- Says whether knowing the colour helped or not
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