Ready-to-teach lesson
Compare Character Knowledge with Reader Knowledge
Boomer Goes to School - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
20 minutes Find the sentence that says what Boomer expects, and the words The two sentences, and one line that tell you he is wrong. saying which is the reader's news Essential question: How do you know Boomer is wrong before Boomer does?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 2, Passage 7
- Passage 1 - Boomer on his rug, the leash already in a hand behind him
- Passage 2 - standing on a bus seat among children
Lesson sequence
1 Launch - 5 min
- Passage 7 - trailing a paper streamer past the seated circle
- Focus:
- A prediction made from what the dog expects
- Teacher direction:
- Read page 1 and ask what happens next.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Turn the page - 5 min
- Focus:
- Two words that overturn a page
- Teacher model:
- Read the first two words of page 2 and stop.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2 3 Write the pair - 10 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write the two sentences and say who finds out first.
- Expected answer:
- The reader, at the start of page 2; Boomer on page 9.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1, Passage 2, Passage 7
Support & extension
Above: Find another page where Boomer expects something and is wrong again, and say what he expects there.
Below: Read page 1 and underline the word 'thought'. Then read the first two words of page 2.
Assessment
- Quotes the 'thought' sentence rather than retelling it
- Names 'But instead' as the contradiction
- Says the reader knows before Boomer does
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