Ready-to-teach lesson
Sequence and Structure
Crazy for California - Grade 2 - Short lesson
- TIME
- OBJECTIVE
- 10 minutes
- Sequence three locations according to their presentation in the travel report.
PRODUCT
An ordered three-stop route with one event beside each stop.
Essential question: In what order does the book present Hollywood, Malibu, and the San Diego zoo?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 3 - Hollywood - the movie-centered stop
- Prepared passages: Passage 3, Passage 5, Passage 6
- Passage 5 - Malibu - the surfing story revealed as a movie-set performance
- Student response materials
Lesson sequence
1 Set the sequence - 2 min
- Passage 6 - San Diego Zoo - elephants, snakes, and parrots
In what order does the book present Hollywood, Malibu, and the San Diego zoo?
2 Work the evidence - 5 min The journey moves from a movie-centered Hollywood report to staged surfing in Malibu and then to zoo animals in San Diego.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 5, Passage 6 3 Make the student product - 3 min An ordered three-stop route with one event beside each stop.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 5, Passage 6
Teacher key
The report presents Hollywood first, Malibu second, and the San Diego zoo third.
Support & extension
Above: Explain how moving between these settings makes the book resemble a travel report.
Below: Give students three location cards to arrange while rereading the cited atoms.
Assessment
- • Places all three locations in source order • Matches each location with a detail from its cited
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