Ready-to-teach lesson
Infer a Speaker's Identity
Pecorino's First Concert - Grade 3 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Work out who Infer a Speaker's Identity belongs to, and why Pecorino cannot.
Essential question: Who is Pecorino talking to?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
STUDENT PRODUCT Rows for each thing Pecorino calls into the tuba, with a box for what comes back
- The book The tuba page copied
- Passage 5 - Pecorino beside a tuba nearly as tall as he is
- Prepared passages: Passage 5, Passage 9
Lesson sequence
1 Listen to the pair - 4 min
- Passage 9 - Mrs Sasquatch holding Pecorino in the aisle
- Focus:
- Replies made only of the words just spoken
- Teacher model:
- Read the calls and replies in pairs and ask what the class notices.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5 2 Fill the rows - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write each call and its reply, then say who is speaking.
- Expected answer:
- Hello gets hello; are you stuck gets stuck. It is his own voice.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5 3 The very last line - 4 min
- Focus:
- A misunderstanding the book leaves standing
- Teacher direction:
- Ask whether Pecorino ever finds out.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9
Support & extension
Above: Explain why the book lets the reader know before Pecorino does, and what that does to the rest of the story.
Below: Say what Pecorino calls into the tuba and what comes back.
Assessment
- Notices every reply is part of the call
- Says the voice is Pecorino's own
- Says why Pecorino does not notice
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