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Standard winner: CC.3.L.4.a
Sleepover Squad #1: Sleeping Over Grade 3 - Vocabulary in Context: Words the Friends Explain
Instructional skill
Vocabulary in context
Audit status
CLEAR WINNER - strict exact-match pass; partial matches excluded.
Regional standards cover added to the approved canonical skill lesson. Lesson content is unchanged.
- Look for:
- Matches each plan to the friend who actually suggests it.
Uses Chapter 1's description for at least one friend.
Names Jo's plan as the one Emily chooses.
Does not say a plan was silly without saying what the book shows about it.
- 4.Vocabulary in Context: Words the Friends Explain
Full lesson
TIME
30 minutes
OBJECTIVE
Work out what bridge club, mature and old-fashioned mean by using the way the book uses and explains them.
STUDENT PRODUCT
A list of three words with a meaning for each, in your own words
FOCUS
Three words explained in dialogue
Essential question
How does the book tell you what a bridge club is, and what mature and oldfashioned mean here?
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Materials
The book, Chapters 2, 5 and 7 Passages 4, 13 and 17, marked before the lesson One list worksheet each
Text to mark before teaching Passage 4 — Chapter 2, what a bridge club is Passage 13 — Chapter 5, Jo's reasoning Passage 17 — Chapter 7, what changed their minds
Lesson sequence
- 1
- Launch · 5 min
- Focus:
- A sensible wrong guess
- Teacher direction:
- If you heard that someone belonged to a bridge club, what would you guess they did?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4
- 2
- Teacher model · 8 min
- Teacher model:
- Watch what happens at bridge club. Kara guesses out loud that it means touring bridges, which is a fair guess from the word. Then Jo says the useful part: bridge is the name of a card game. The wrong guess and the correction are one line apart, and the correction is my definition.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4
3 Bridge club · 7 min
- Focus:
- Reading the correction
- Teacher direction:
- In Passage 4, what does Kara guess a bridge club is, and what does Jo say it really is?
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| Expected answer: | Kara guesses they go and tour bridges. Jo says bridge is the name of a card game, and that her parents get together with friends once a month to play cards and eat dinner. |
| Prepared text: | Passage 4 |
| 4 Mature · 6 min | |
| Focus: | A word defined by its opposite |
| Teacher direction: | In Passage 13, Jo sets two ways of acting against each other. Write both, and then write what mature means here. |
| Expected answer: | Jo says that behaving like a baby keeps you treated as one, while behaving more grown-up gets your growing up noticed. So mature means behaving in a grown-up way. |
| Prepared text: | Passage 13 |
| 5 Finish the list · 4 min | |
| Focus: | All three words |
| Teacher direction: | Complete your list of three words and their meanings. |
| Expected answer: | Bridge club: people who meet to play a card game called bridge. Mature: behaving in a grown-up way. Old-fashioned: sticking to older ideas, which is what the friends call Emily's parents about some things. |
| Student product: | A list of three words with a meaning for each, in your own words |
| Prepared text: | Passage 4, Passage 13, Passage 17 |
Teacher guidance
Why this text works: The bridge club exchange is a small model of how a reader should behave: Kara guesses wrong out loud, Jo corrects her in the next line, and the correction is the definition. Mature is then defined by contrast with acting like a baby, and old-fashioned by what the friends say the
contrast with acting like a baby, and old-fashioned by what the friends say the parents are like.
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- Expected answer:
- A bridge club is a group of people who meet to play bridge, which Jo explains is the name of a card game; her parents get together with friends once a month to play cards and eat dinner. Mature here means grown-up in the way you behave, which Jo sets against acting like a baby. Old-fashioned is what Kara and Jo call Emily's parents about some things, meaning they stick to older ideas about what a child is allowed to do.
Model: Watch what happens at bridge club. Kara guesses out loud that it means touring bridges, which is a fair guess from the word. Then Jo says the useful part: bridge is the name of a card game.
The wrong guess and the correction are one line apart, and the correction is my definition.
Support and extension
Above: Kara's guess about touring bridges is wrong but sensible. Explain what made it a reasonable guess, and what part of the sentence should have warned her.
Below: For each word, first copy the sentence that explains it. Then finish:
'____ means ____.'
Assessment
- Look for:
- Explains a bridge club as people meeting to play a card game.
Explains mature as behaving in a grown-up way, using Jo's contrast.
Gives a meaning for old-fashioned that fits how the friends use it.
Writes each meaning in the student's own words rather than only copying.
Short version
TIME
16 minutes
OBJECTIVE
Work out what bridge club, mature and old-fashioned mean by using the way the book uses and explains them.
STUDENT PRODUCT
A list of three words with a meaning for each, in your own words
FOCUS
Three words explained in dialogue
page 5
Essential question
How does the book tell you what a bridge club is, and what mature and oldfashioned mean here?
Materials
The book, Chapters 2, 5 and 7 Passages 4, 13 and 17, marked before the lesson One list worksheet each
Text to mark before teaching Passage 4 — Chapter 2, what a bridge club is Passage 13 — Chapter 5, Jo's reasoning Passage 17 — Chapter 7, what changed their minds
Lesson sequence
- 1
- Teacher model · 6 min
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| Teacher model: | Watch what happens at bridge club. Kara guesses out loud that it means touring bridges, which is a fair guess from the word. Then Jo says the useful part: bridge is the name of a card game. The wrong guess and the correction are one line apart, and the correction is my definition. |
| Prepared text: | Passage 4 |
| 2 | Mature · 5 min |
| Focus: | A word defined by its opposite |
| Teacher direction: | In Passage 13, Jo sets two ways of acting against each other. Write both, and then write what mature means here. |
| Expected answer: | Jo says that behaving like a baby keeps you treated as one, while behaving more grown-up gets your growing up noticed. So mature means behaving in a grown-up way. |
| Prepared text: | Passage 13 |
| 3 Finish the list · 5 min | |
| Focus: | All three words |
| Teacher direction: | Complete your list of three words and their meanings. |
| Expected answer: | Bridge club: people who meet to play a card game called bridge. Mature: behaving in a grown-up way. Old-fashioned: sticking to older ideas, which is what the friends call Emily's parents about some things. |
| Student product: | A list of three words with a meaning for each, in your own words |
| Prepared text: | Passage 4, Passage 13, Passage 17 |
Teacher guidance
Why this text works: The bridge club exchange is a small model of how a reader should behave: Kara guesses wrong out loud, Jo corrects her in the next line, and the correction is the definition. Mature is then defined by
next line, and the correction is the definition. Mature is then defined by
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contrast with acting like a baby, and old-fashioned by what the friends say the parents are like.
- Expected answer:
- A bridge club is a group of people who meet to play bridge, which Jo explains is the name of a card game; her parents get together with friends once a month to play cards and eat dinner. Mature here means grown-up in the way you behave, which Jo sets against acting like a baby. Old-fashioned is what Kara and Jo call Emily's parents about some things, meaning they stick to older ideas about what a child is allowed to do.
Model: Watch what happens at bridge club. Kara guesses out loud that it means touring bridges, which is a fair guess from the word. Then Jo says the useful part: bridge is the name of a card game.
The wrong guess and the correction are one line apart, and the correction is my definition.
Support and extension
Above: Kara's guess about touring bridges is wrong but sensible. Explain what made it a reasonable guess, and what part of the sentence should have warned her.
Below: For each word, first copy the sentence that explains it. Then finish:
'____ means ____.'
Assessment
- Look for:
- Explains a bridge club as people meeting to play a card game.
Explains mature as behaving in a grown-up way, using Jo's contrast.
Gives a meaning for old-fashioned that fits how the friends use it.
Writes each meaning in the student's own words rather than only copying.
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