Ready-to-teach lesson
Match Questions with Answers
Meet the Meerkat - Grade K - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
15 minutes Match each answer to the question it belongs to, and notice who is Rows pairing each question with speaking in it. its answer, with the word that shows who is speaking circled Essential question: Who answers the questions in this book?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book, on a screen the whole class can see The • Passage 2 - a meerkat sitting up in
scrubland, head turned answers copied with the questions cut off
- Passage 5 - a meerkat with a scorpion in its mouth beside a rock
- Prepared passages: Passage 2, Passage 5,
- Passage 6 - a bare tree with meerkats on the sand behind it Passage 6
Lesson sequence
1 Question and answer together - 4 min
- Focus:
- Two voices on one page
- Teacher model:
- Read this page's question and its answer, and ask who speaks in each.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2 2 Match them up - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say which question each of these answers belongs to.
- Expected answer:
- Insects and scorpions answers what do you eat; eagles and jackals answers what do you fear.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5, Passage 6 3 Circle the word - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Circle the word each answer starts with.
- Expected answer:
- I - the meerkat talking about itself.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5
Support & extension
Above: Say how you could tell an answer belonged to this book even with its question cut off.
Below: Read one answer and say which question it goes with.
Assessment
- Matches an answer to the right question
- Notices every answer begins with I
- Says the meerkat is speaking about itself
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