Ready-to-teach lesson
Analyze Repetition Across Events
Boomer's Big Surprise - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Find every place the book says nobody noticed Boomer, and put them in order.
PRODUCT
Rows for each time, in order, with a box for what Boomer tried and a box for the words the book used Essential question: The same thing keeps happening to Boomer. How does the book say it each time?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 2 - a dog's face among a family's legs
- A row for each time Boomer is ignored in the book
- Prepared passages: Passage 2, Passage 6, Passage 8
Lesson sequence
1 The first time - 5 min
- Passage 6 - a family on a sofa petting a puppy, the grown dog looking up from the floor
- Passage 8 - a boy running with a puppy across a lawn, the grown dog lying by the bins
- Focus:
- A try and another try, both refused
- Teacher model:
- Read this page and ask what Boomer tries.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2 2 The next two - 6 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write the words each of these pages ends with.
- Expected answer:
- But no one did - on both of them.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 6, Passage 8 3 What got shorter - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say what has happened to the sentence by the second time.
- Expected answer:
- It has been cut down to four words.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2, Passage 6
Support & extension
Above: Say why the shortest version of the sentence is the saddest one.
Below: Find the page where Boomer waits for someone to throw the ball.
Assessment
- Finds all the times Boomer is ignored
- Quotes the words the book uses each time
- Notices the sentence gets shorter
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