Ready-to-teach lesson
Whole Book Plan
The Fire Station - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
25 minutes Read the whole book and follow Michael and Sheila from the fire station door to the police station door.
PRODUCT
Rows for each stage, in order, with what Michael said and what Sheila did Essential question: Michael objects at every single step. Why does he end up going anyway?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book
- One chart started on the board
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 4, Passage 5, Passage 9, Passage 11
- Passage 1 - two children facing each other outside a fire station with red doors
- Passage 4 - two children spattered with colour standing in front of an enormous fire
- Passage 5 - a woman at a front door with her hand at her chest, shouting
- Passage 9 - a man scrubbing a girl's hair in a bathtub full of bubbles
Lesson sequence
1 Before reading - 4 min
- Passage 11 - two children reaching for each other beside a police station sign, two policemen
above them
- Focus:
- A friend who never takes no for an answer
- Teacher direction:
- Ask what a friend who never takes no for an answer is like.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1, Passage 4, Passage 5, Passage 9, Passage 11 2 Read it through - 12 min
- Focus:
- An objection overruled on the first page
- Teacher model:
- Read the whole book, stopping after the first page to ask what Michael was saying.
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- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 3 The chart - 9 min
- Teacher direction:
- Fill in Michael's objection at each stage, then add what happens at the fire and how both children's homecomings end.
- Expected answer:
- Coloured smoke all over both of them and a lift home from the chief; then five days in the bathtub for Sheila.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4, Passage 9
Support & extension
Above: Say what the fireman allowed and what he refused, and whether either made any difference.
Below: Say who wanted to ride a fire truck and who did not.
Assessment
- Keeps the stages in the order the book gives them
- Gives Michael's objection at each stage
- Says how each child's homecoming ended
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