Ready-to-teach lesson
The Giant s Own Letter
Boy Soup - Grade 3 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Read the letter at the end as a letter, and say what the giant admits in it that nobody made him admit.
PRODUCT
Rows for each thing the giant says in his letter, with a box for whether anybody had accused him of it Essential question: Why does the book finish with a letter instead of carrying on the story?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The letter pages copied
- Passage 9 - a big hand-lettered letter, Kate holding it open
- Prepared passages: Passage 9, Passage 10
Lesson sequence
1 Whose writing - 4 min
- Passage 10 - the lower half of the same letter, Kate leaning on it
- Focus:
- A text inside the story with its own handwriting
- Teacher model:
- Show the letter and ask how the class can tell who wrote it.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9 2 What he admits - 6 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what the giant admits here.
- Expected answer:
- That the book is old, that it was wrong, and that he thinks he already knew.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9 3 The thanks - 5 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what he thanks Kate for.
- Expected answer:
- For tricking him - he says he would have felt bad afterwards.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 10
Support & extension
Above: Say what the underlining in the letter tells you about which parts the giant thought were most important.
Below: Say who wrote the letter and who it was sent to.
Assessment
- Recognises the letter as written by the giant himself
- Names at least two things he admits
- Notices he says he already knew it was wrong
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