Ready-to-teach lesson
Compare a Narrator's Opening and Ending
Art's Supplies - Grade 3 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Work out what Art is really telling you by reading the first page against the last two.
Essential question: Does Art mean the excuse he starts with?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
Boxes for what Art says at the start and what he says at the end, with a line written underneath about the difference
- The book The first and last pages, copied
- Passage 1 - Art in the doorway of the supply room, arms wide
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 15, Passage 16
Lesson sequence
1 Hold on to the first line - 4 min
- Passage 15 - Art in front of the finished rainbow picture, grinning
- Passage 16 - Art's open mouth filling the page, supplies cheering
- Focus:
- A claim made before any of the story
- Teacher model:
- Read the opening page and write the excuse on the board.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 The last two pages - 8 min
- Teacher direction:
- Read the last two pages and say whether they agree with the board.
- Expected answer:
- They do not. Art says we, not they, and he wants another party.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 15, Passage 16 3 So what was it - 3 min
- Focus:
- An excuse read backwards from the ending
- Teacher direction:
- Ask what the excuse on the first page really was.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 16
Support & extension
Above: Explain why the author puts the excuse first instead of last.
Below: Read the first page and the last page, and say whether Art is sorry.
Assessment
- Quotes the excuse from the opening page
- Notices Art says we at the end rather than they
- Says whether the ending backs the excuse up
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