Ready-to-teach lesson
Evaluate a Character's Plan and Outcome
Zoe Sophia's Scrapbook - Grade 3 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Follow what Zoe Sophia and Dorothy do about the lost dog, and say which of it actually found him.
Essential question: They tried several things. Which one worked?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
Rows for each thing they do about the lost dog, with a box for whether it worked
- The book The map page and the pages after it
- Prepared passages: Passage 5, Passage 7, Passage 8
- Passage 5 - a hand-drawn map headed Plan of Action, with numbered stops and a compass
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- Passage 7 - an elderly woman typing at a green typewriter, bookshelves behind
Lesson sequence
1 The plan - 4 min
- Passage 8 - a soaking gondolier in a straw hat holding two dachshunds
- Focus:
- A plan drawn as well as written
- Teacher model:
- Read this entry and ask what the numbers on the map are for.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5 2 What else they try - 6 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what they try next and what stops it.
- Expected answer:
- The animal shelter, and a reward notice they cannot post because of the rain.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 7 3 Who found him - 5 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write who brings Mickey back and what he had noticed.
- Expected answer:
- The gondolier, who had seen the silver tag on Mickey's collar.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8
Support & extension
Above: Say why the silver tag worked when the map and the notice did not, and who had thought of the tag.
Below: Say what Zoe Sophia draws to help find Mickey.
Assessment
- Lists at least two things they try
- Says who actually brings Mickey back
- Names the tag as what made it possible
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