BIG 6 Teaching Episode Planning Template Predicting Name: Alaura Dupuis Grade: 2 Teaching Date: 27 January 2017 LEARNING OBJECTIVE(S) Given the book, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, students will make predictions about what will happen in the story. Students will compare their predictions to what really happened in the book. • Key Ideas and Details: 2.RL.3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: 2.RL.7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. ASSESSMENT Students will be assessed on the predictions that they made and their accuracy to what actually happened in the story. Students will …show more content…
Ask students for verbal predictions of what will happen when you give a mouse a cookie. o Around this point, ask if any of the students have read the book, or if it was read to them. If so, tell the student(s) not to give away everything that happened, as that is not what a prediction is. • Go through the book, just looking at the illustrations and have students individually write predictions of what will happen. Have them back up their predictions using the illustrations. Ensure that students have time to discuss, inquire about, and infer from each illustration. • Have students do a think-pair-share to discuss their predictions. • Once the discussion dies down, have a few groups share out what they predict will happen and why. Write students’ responses on the chart paper. • Take predictions until most, if not all, of the content of the book has been predicted. Go back to pictures if necessary. • Explain that you will be reading what the author, Laura Numeroff, thinks will happen if you give a mouse a cookie. • Have students listen closely to see how well their predictions held