Ready-to-teach lesson
Full Plan
Crazy for California - Grade 2 - Short lesson
- TIME
- OBJECTIVE PRODUCT
- 20 minutes
- Build one integrated evidence-based response to: How does Crazy for One integrated evidence-based California turn its tour into a choice for the reader? response.
Essential question: How does Crazy for California turn its tour into a choice for the reader?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book
- Prepared passages: Passage 2, Passage 4, Passage 5, Passage 6, Passage 10, Passage 12
- Student response materials
- Passage 2 - opening - enthusiasm and the promise that readers will choose a favorite place
- Passage 4 - rush-hour traffic - the playful traffic report
- Passage 5 - Malibu - the surfing story revealed as a movie-set performance
- Passage 6 - San Diego Zoo - elephants, snakes, and parrots
- Passage 10 - San Francisco - bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown
Lesson sequence
1 Open with the big idea - 4 min
- Passage 12 - ending - the reader is asked to choose a favorite California place
Explain that the text presents California as a collection of enjoyable stops, then gives readers a role by asking for their preference.
- Prepared text:
- Passages 2, 12 2 State the central idea - 4 min State the central idea developed by the opening and ending: the book celebrates California places and invites readers to choose the place they prefer.
- Prepared text:
- Passages 2, 12 3 Collect the place details - 4 min Collect explicit details about the San Diego zoo and San Francisco.
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- Prepared text:
- Passages 6, 10 4 Explain the playful reporting - 4 min Explain how the rush-hour and Malibu passages make the travel report playful.
- Prepared text:
- Passages 4, 5 5 Synthesize the response - 4 min Answer the essential question by connecting the enthusiastic tour, accurate place details, playful reporting, and the final invitation to choose.
- Prepared text:
- Passages 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12
Assessment
- • States that the book enthusiastically explores California places • Explains that readers are
invited to choose a favorite • Names accurate details for the San Diego zoo and San Francisco • States a focused claim about the playful reporting style • Uses an accurate rush-hour or Malibu movie-set detail
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