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Interpret Figurative and Literal Meaning
Interpret Figurative and Literal Meaning - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Work out what Ralph's dad means by Interpret Figurative and Literal Meaning, and what Ralph decides it means.
Essential question: Did Ralph's dad promise him a bike or not?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
Boxes for what the dad meant and what Ralph took it to mean, with the sentence copied between them
- The book The dad's line and Ralph's plan copied together
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 2, Passage 3, Passage 7
- Passage 1 - a young cow and an older one in front of a bicycle
- Passage 2 - the two cows on a red tractor, a bicycle in a thought bubble
- Passage 3 - two cows in dungarees standing on a green hill
Lesson sequence
1 What had happened first - 4 min
- Passage 7 - a cow's face and a man's, close together against green
- Focus:
- A promise made at the end of an argument
- Teacher model:
- Read these pages and ask what the answers had been so far.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1, Passage 2 2 The promise - 6 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write the dad's sentence and say what he means.
- Expected answer:
- He agrees, then adds the saying after a pause - meaning never.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3 3 What Ralph hears - 5 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say what Ralph has decided the sentence means.
- Expected answer:
- A condition he can meet, by taking pigs up in a helicopter.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 7
Support & extension
Above: Say why the dad chose that saying rather than simply saying no again, and what it cost him.
Below: Say what the dad promises Ralph and when.
Assessment
- Says the dad means never
- Says Ralph reads it as a condition
- Quotes Ralph's own explanation of his plan
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