Ready-to-teach lesson
Key Details How a Truck Goes to Bed
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site - Grade K - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Write what each truck uses to settle down, and find what the pictures give them that the words do not.
Essential question: A truck has no pyjamas. So what does it use instead?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
A two-row record: the truck, and the parts it uses
- • The book
- • Passage 5 - the crane truck settles
- • One truck sheet each
- • Passage 11 - dump truck's loads
- Prepared passages: Passage 5, Passage 11, Passage 13
Lesson sequence
1 Launch - 3 min
- Passage 13 - the dump truck settles
- Focus:
- Bedtime made out of machinery
- Teacher direction:
- A truck has no pyjamas and no teddy. So how does a truck go to bed?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 13 2 Teacher model - 5 min
- Teacher model:
- I read the dump truck going to sleep and notice every single thing it does is a thing a dump truck has. It lowers its bed - which is the part that tips - locks its gate, rests its wheels, dims its lights, shuts its doors. Nothing has been borrowed from a person.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 13 3 Each truck's own way - 7 min
- Focus:
- Two trucks, two sets of parts
page 1
- Teacher direction:
- Using Passages 5, 11 and 13, write what each truck uses to go to bed.
- Expected answer:
- The crane truck folds its boom back in, tucks itself in tight and cuddles up - and the picture gives it a small teddy in the box on its arm and a star hanging from its hook, like a night-light it has hung for itself. The dump truck lowers its bed, locks its gate, rests its wheels, dims its lights, shuts its doors, and its engine slows into snores. Same routine, different parts, because the parts are what each truck happens to have.
- Student product:
- Two rows: the truck, and what it uses
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5, Passage 11, Passage 13
Support & extension
Above: Every truck does the same routine with different parts. Pick a truck and explain how it goes to bed.
Below: Two rows: the truck, and what it uses. Then the pictures.
Assessment
- Names two things the crane truck does
- Names two things the dump truck does
- Says why each truck uses different parts
- Finds the teddy or the star in the crane's picture
- Says what the letter Z turns into on the dump truck's page
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