Ready-to-teach lesson
Whole-Book Plan
Art's Supplies - Grade 3 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
20 minutes Read the whole book and follow the party from the paper's invitation to the offer of another one.
Essential question: Who turns up, in what order, and what does each one bring?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
Rows for each supply that arrives, in order, with what it did beside it
- • The book
- • Passage 2 - shelves of jars and brushes, a blank easel beside them
- One chart started on the board
- Passage 7 - two markers standing on a white page, nothing else on it
- Prepared passages: Passage 2, Passage 7, Passage 10, Passage 13, Passage 16
- Passage 10 - open scissors on the left, Art standing on a tape roll
- Passage 13 - a paint-covered brush with heavy-lidded eyes
Lesson sequence
1 Before reading - 3 min
- Passage 16 - Art's open mouth filling the page, supplies cheering
- Focus:
- Naming the cast before meeting it
- Teacher direction:
- Ask what is in the art cupboard and what each thing does.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2, Passage 7, Passage 10, Passage 13, Passage 16 2 Read it through - 9 min
- Focus:
- A story that starts with an invitation
- Teacher model:
- Read the book, stopping after the second page to ask who is throwing the party.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2 3 The guest list - 8 min
- Teacher direction:
- List who arrives, in order, with one thing each one does.
- Expected answer:
- Paper, pencils, crayons, pastels, ink, scissors and tape, glue, paints and brushes - ending with another party offered.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 13, Passage 16
Support & extension
Above: Say which arrival the party could not have done without, and why.
Below: Name three supplies that come to the party and one thing each of them does.
Assessment
- Lists arrivals in the book's order
- Gives each supply an action from its own page
- Says how the book ends
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