Ready-to-teach lesson
Analyze How Illustrations Support an Argument
Duck! Rabbit! - Grade K - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
15 minutes Find what the pictures say that the words do not, and explain what A two-column record:
what the they add to the argument. words say, what the picture adds Essential question: One page has letters nobody speaks and one has the only coloured animal in the book. Why those two?
Materials
Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 4 - the bread and the carrot
- • One two-column
- • Passage 5 - what they say they heard
- sheet each
- Prepared passages: Passage 4, Passage 5, Passage 9
Lesson sequence
1 Launch - 3 min
- Passage 9 - through the binoculars
- Focus:
- A drawing that joins in
- Teacher direction:
- The words are two people arguing. What is the picture doing while they argue?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4 2 Teacher model - 5 min
- Teacher model:
- I look at the page where they talk about food, and the picture does something the words do not. A piece of bread comes in from one side of the page and a carrot comes in from the other. The drawing has given each voice exactly what it asked for, and still tells us nothing about which one is right.
page 1
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4 3 What only the picture tells you - 7 min
- Focus:
- Two pictures that answer back
- Teacher direction:
- Using Passages 5 and 9, find the thing on each page that nobody says out loud.
- Expected answer:
- On the page about sounds, one voice says it heard duck sounds and the other says it distinctly heard rabbit sounds - and the picture has small hand-written letters beside the animal's nose reading sniff sniff. Neither of them claims that, and a sniff settles nothing. On the page with the binoculars, the whole page turns into what you would see looking through them: two bright circles on a black background with the same shape inside. Looking closer has changed nothing at all.
- Student product:
- Two rows: what the words say, what the picture adds
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5, Passage 9
Support & extension
Above: The picture in the thought bubble has a duck's body and a rabbit's ears. Explain why it is on that page and not any other. .
Below: Two columns: what the words say, what the picture adds.
Assessment
- Says what the picture adds on the food page
- Finds the letters on the sounds page that nobody speaks
- Explains what the binoculars page looks like
- Describes the animal in the thought bubble
- Says why that animal is coloured when the others are not
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