Ready-to-teach lesson
Classify Questions by Purpose
Meet the Meerkat - Grade K - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Collect the questions this book asks and say what kind of thing each one wants to know.
Essential question: What does this book want to find out?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
Rows for each question, with a box for the kind of thing it asks about
- The book, on a screen the whole class can see The • Passage 1 - a meerkat's face filling the
page against clouds questions copied on one sheet
- Passage 8 - meerkats asleep in a burrow, the moon through the
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 8 entrance
Lesson sequence
1 The first question - 4 min
- Focus:
- A question that supplies the name for the rest of the book
- Teacher model:
- Read the opening page and ask where the animal's name comes from.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Collect them - 7 min 3 The one that is not a question - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say what the last page does instead of asking.
- Expected answer:
- It says good night to the meerkat.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8
Support & extension
Above: Sort the questions into ones about what a meerkat is and ones about what a meerkat does, and say which kind there are more of.
Below: Read two of the questions and say what each one wants to know.
Assessment
- Collects the questions rather than the answers
- Notices they share an opening
- Notices the last page is not a question
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