Ready-to-teach lesson
Identify and Compare Key Details
Song of Middle C - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Collect the lucky things she wears and work out which one her brother does not know about.
Essential question: Why does the underwear keep coming back?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
Rows for each lucky thing, with a box for who mentions it and where
- The book The pages copied
- Passage 1 - a girl's face filling the right of the page, grinning
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 3, Passage 5, Passage 8
- Passage 3 - the girl in her hat in a car, her brother beside her
- Passage 5 - the same car again, the girl looking straight ahead
Lesson sequence
1 All three at once - 4 min
- Passage 8 - the girl at a grand piano, an audience behind her
- Focus:
- A list given all together
- Teacher model:
- Read this page and write the three lucky things up.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Which ones he names - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Mark which of the lucky things the brother mentions.
- Expected answer:
- The hat and then the shoes - never the underwear.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 5 3 The one she calls on - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say which one she asks for help when her fingers stop.
- Expected answer:
- The underwear.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8
Support & extension
Above: Say why the author gives the secret one to the underwear rather than to the hat.
Below: Name the three lucky things she wears.
Assessment
- Names all three lucky things
- Says which two the brother mentions
- Notices the third one returns at the crisis and at the end
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