Ready-to-teach lesson
Identify and Organize Supporting Details
Animals Black and White - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
16 minutes Collect what each answer page says about who the animal lives with or looks after.
PRODUCT
Rows for each animal, with a box for who it is with and a box for what it does with them Essential question: Almost every answer page in this book mentions somebody else. Who?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • Materials
- • Passage 2 - a zebra's head in close up, a herd on the plain behind
- • The book
- • Passage 4 - an orca surfacing among white spray
- A row for each answer page in the book
- Passage 5 - a loon on a lake with a downy chick riding on her back
- Prepared passages: Passage 2, Passage 4, Passage 5, Passage 7, Passage 9
Lesson sequence
1 A herd and a crowd - 5 min
- Passage 7 - a skunk with two young ones behind it in the grass
- Passage 9 - a penguin bending towards a grey chick
- Focus:
- Company counted in different ways
- Teacher model:
- Read these pages and ask who each animal is with.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2, Passage 4 2 Looking after the young - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write who each of these animals is with.
- Expected answer:
- A chick riding on her back; and hungry babies being taught what to look for.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5, Passage 7 3 Taking turns - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what the two penguin parents do.
- Expected answer:
- They take turns minding the chicks in the rookery.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9
Support & extension
Above: Say which animal gives a reason for being with others, and what the reason is.
Below: Say who the zebra travels with.
Assessment
- Names who each animal is with
- Says what they do together, not just that they are together
- Finds the one page that gives a reason
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