Ready-to-teach lesson
Whole-Book Plan
Song of Middle C - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
20 minutes Read the whole book and work out what goes wrong at the recital Rows for the build-up, the and what she does about it. problem and what she did, in order Essential question: She has practised for weeks. So what happens?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 2 - the girl bowing to a bed full of soft toys
- One chart started on the board
- Passage 6 - a row of children waiting under stage lights
- Prepared passages: Passage 2, Passage 6, Passage 8, Passage 10, Passage 11
- Passage 8 - the girl at a grand piano, an audience behind her
- Passage 10 - the family crowding round the girl, who holds roses
Lesson sequence
1 Before reading - 3 min
- Passage 11 - a man in a bow tie and a woman with a raised finger beside the girl
- Focus:
- The situation the book is heading for
- Teacher direction:
- Ask what people do when their mind goes blank on stage.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2, Passage 6, Passage 8, Passage 10, Passage 11 2 Read it through - 9 min
- Focus:
- Confidence stated before the test
- Teacher model:
- Read the whole book, stopping after the bowing page to ask how confident she is.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2 3 Two verdicts - 8 min
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- Teacher direction:
- Write what goes wrong and what the two grown-ups and the brother say about it.
- Expected answer:
- Her fingers stop and she cannot start the piece. The man calls the result a fascinating composition; the brother knows she forgot it.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8, Passage 11
Support & extension
Above: Say whether she was telling the truth about the piece being brand- new, and give your reason.
Below: Say what goes wrong at the recital and what she does next.
Assessment
- Names the forgotten piece as the problem
- Says what she played instead
- Notices the brother and the parents say different things
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