Ready-to-teach lesson
Interpret Intended Meaning in Questions
Song of Middle C - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Work out what the big brother's questions actually mean, and whether his sister answers them.
Essential question: Does she ever answer what her brother is really asking?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
Rows for each question the brother asks, with a box for what it means and a box for her answer
- • Materials
- • Passage 3 - the girl in her hat in a car, her brother beside her
- The book The car pages copied in order
- Passage 4 - the same car, the brother with his eyes shut
- Prepared passages: Passage 3, Passage 4, Passage 5, Passage 7, Passage 8
- Passage 5 - the same car again, the girl looking straight ahead
- Passage 7 - the same row of children, one biting her lip
Lesson sequence
1 The first question - 4 min
- Passage 8 - the girl at a grand piano, an audience behind her
- Focus:
- A question in a saying
- Teacher model:
- Read the brother's question and her answer, and ask what the saying means.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 4 2 Fill the rows - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what each saying means and how much of it she answers.
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- Expected answer:
- Of course she is - and she later repeats his own phrase about being cool as a cucumber.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5, Passage 7 3 Was he right - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say what happens at the recital.
- Expected answer:
- Her fingers stop and she cannot remember the piece.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8
Support & extension
Above: Say why the author gives the brother sayings to ask rather than plain questions.
Below: Read one of the brother's questions and her answer, and say whether she explains herself.
Assessment
- Gives the everyday meaning of at least one saying
- Notices how short each reply is
- Connects the questions to what happens at the recital
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