Ready-to-teach lesson
Compare Repeated Responses
I Have to Go! - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
15 minutes Count how many times Andrew says no on each page and find out Rows for each of Andrew's whether it is always the same. answers, with the number of nos counted in each Essential question: Does Andrew always say no the same number of times?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book Andrew's four answers copied on one sheet
- Passage 1 - two parents kneeling either side of a small boy with folded arms
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 3, Passage 4, Passage 5
- Passage 3 - a boy in a green snowsuit at an open door, snow outside
- Passage 4 - the boy in the snowsuit, arms out, on a white page
Lesson sequence
1 Count the first one - 5 min
- Passage 5 - the boy eating soup in bed
- Focus:
- Counting a repeated word
- Teacher model:
- Count Andrew's nos on this page with the class. There are two answers here.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Fill the rows - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Count the nos on each of these pages and write the numbers.
- Expected answer:
- Five, then six - not the same.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 5 3 The other numbers - 3 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write the three numbers on this page and say what they count.
- Expected answer:
- Five zippers, 10 buckles, 17 snaps.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4
Support & extension
Above: Say whether the number of nos means anything, and give your reason from the pages.
Below: Count the nos in Andrew's answer on one page and write the number.
Assessment
- Counts rather than assuming
- Gets at least two of the four counts right: six and then four on the opening page, five before the
snowsuit, six at bedtime
- Says the answers are not all identical
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