Ready-to-teach lesson
Make and Check a Prediction
Boomer's Big Surprise - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
16 minutes Read the opening pages and work out what is coming, then check Two boxes - the strange things, your guess against the page where the book says it. and the class's guess - and a third for what the book said Essential question: The book tells you three strange things at the beginning. What are they all for?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The opening pages of the book, and a guess box on the board
- Passage 1 - a dog on newspapers beside a new blue bowl and a large
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 3, Passage 4
Lesson sequence
1 Three strange things - 5 min
- Passage 3 - a dog stretching his nose towards a bundle of blanket
- Passage 4 - a puppy in a blue blanket beside a grown dog's face
- Focus:
- A list with no explanation attached
- Teacher model:
- Read this page and write the three things on the board.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Make the guess - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what you think is coming, before reading on.
- Expected answer:
- A puppy - paper on the floor, a second bowl, and a box for something to arrive in.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1, Passage 3 3 Check the guess - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what the book says it is.
- Expected answer:
- A baby Boomer - a little black nose and a pink tongue.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4
Support & extension
Above: Say which of the three objects was the strongest clue, and why.
Below: Say what the three strange things in the kitchen were.
Assessment
- Lists all three objects from the text
- Makes a guess before the page that answers it
- Checks the guess against the page where Baby Boomer is revealed
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