Ready-to-teach lesson
Interpret Quotation Marks and Italics
Animals Black and White - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
15 minutes Find the words this book puts inside quotation marks or prints in Rows for each marked word, sloping letters, and work out what each kind of mark is telling you. with a box for the mark and a box for what it tells you Essential question: Why does one word on the penguin's page have marks round it when nobody is speaking?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The pages with marked words, copied out • Passage 4 - an orca surfacing among
white spray
- Prepared passages: Passage 4, Passage 8, Passage 11
Lesson sequence
1 A word in marks - 5 min
- Passage 8 - a black wing shape edged with white against white
- Passage 11 - a butterfly on a hibiscus flower
- Focus:
- Quotation marks with no speaker
- Teacher model:
- Read this page and ask who is being quoted.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8 2 Why not really fly - 6 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write why the word fly needs marks round it here.
- Expected answer:
- Because the penguin is under water, not in the air - the word has been borrowed.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8 3 The sloping letters - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write the sloping words on these pages.
- Expected answer:
- Killer whale, and African mocker swallowtail - both other names for the animal.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4, Passage 11
Support & extension
Above: Say what the book would lose if it took the marks off the word fly.
Below: Find a word in this book printed in sloping letters.
Assessment
- Says the quotation marks are not there for speech
- Explains why fly is not quite the right word for a penguin
- Says what the sloping letters mark instead
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