Ready-to-teach lesson
Whole-Book Plan
When Pigs Fly - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
20 minutes Read the whole book and follow Ralph from asking for a bicycle to Rows for each stage, in order, flying a helicopter. with what Ralph wanted at each one Essential question: How does asking for a bike end with pigs in the air?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 1 - a young cow and an older one in front of a bicycle
- One chart started on the board
- Passage 8 - a helicopter between rooftops with a man and a cow in it
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 8, Passage 9, Passage 10
Lesson sequence
1 Before reading - 3 min
- Passage 9 - a helicopter landing on a yellow hillside
- Passage 10 - two pigs looking up at a departing helicopter
- Focus:
- The kind of answer the book is about
- Teacher direction:
- Ask what grown-ups say when they mean no.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1, Passage 8, Passage 9, Passage 10 2 Read it through - 9 min
- Focus:
- A want stated in one line
- Teacher model:
- Read the whole book, stopping after the opening to say what Ralph wants.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 3 The chart - 8 min
- Teacher direction:
- List the stages in order and say whether Ralph meets the condition.
- Expected answer:
- Asking, the promise, the airport, a week of lessons, and taking pigs up - so pigs have flown.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9, Passage 10
Support & extension
Above: Say whether Ralph has earned his bicycle, and give your reason from the dad's own words.
Below: Say what Ralph wants at the start and what he is doing at the end.
Assessment
- Names the bicycle as the goal
- Puts the stages in order
- Says what happens when the helicopter lands
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