Ready-to-teach lesson
Sequence and Structure
Box of Shocks (EBook) - Grade 5 - Short lesson
- TIME
- OBJECTIVE
- 10 minutes
- Arrange three collection events in their text-supported chronological order.
PRODUCT
A three-step timeline with one event per step.
Essential question: In what order does Oliver obtain the candy, the chewed spike, and the bridge :
bolt?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 3 - Milburn House - Oliver saves the Halloween candy
- Prepared passages: Passage 3, Passage 4, Passage 5
- Student response materials
Lesson sequence
1 Set the sequence - 2 min
- Passage 4 - Spike McChomp - Oliver keeps the chewed metal spike
- Passage 5 - Pegasus Valley Bridge - Oliver carries away the bridge bolt
In what order does Oliver obtain the candy, the chewed spike, and the bridge bolt?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 4, Passage 5 2 Work the evidence - 5 min Reread Passages 3-5. Have students identify the souvenir in each episode and place the three events in source order, using first, next, and later.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 4, Passage 5 3 Make the student product - 3 min Have students build a three-step timeline with one event per step and use sequence words to show the order.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 4, Passage 5
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Teacher key
Oliver first adds the Milburn House candy, next adds Spike : Oliver first adds the Milburn House candy, next adds Spike McChomp's chewed spike, and later carries away the bridge bolt.
Support & extension
Above: Add one sentence explaining how the increasing physical danger links the three episodes structurally.
Below: Provide three object cards for the student to number and pair with Milburn House, Spike McChomp, and Pegasus Valley Bridge.
Assessment
- • Places the candy first, the spike second, and the bolt third • Connects each object to the correct
adventure • Uses sequence words Essential question: In what order does Oliver obtain the candy, the chewed spike, and the bridge bolt?
- Oliver first adds the Milburn House candy, next adds Spike McChomp's chewed spike, and later
carries away the bridge bolt
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