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Lesson Plan
Look for the Clues
What the character will do next? Designed to teach students the skill of predicting characters’ actions, this lesson guides students to use clues and evidence from the text to make their predictions. Let’s follow those clues!
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to predict characters’ actions using clues and evidence from the text.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
Introduction
(10 minutes)
- Distribute index cards or half-sheets of notebook paper.
- Ask the students to complete a quick write in which they write about a character who is preparing to go to a specific location. Tell the students not to name the location. As needed, give an example. Give the students five minutes to write.
- When students have finished, collect all of the index cards and mix them up. Distribute one to each student.
- Challenge the students to read their card and try to name the place where their character is going.
- Invite students to read their card and share their thinking, including their rationale for naming a particular place.
- Tell the students that when we make a prediction, or predict, we use clues or evidence in the story to tell what we think will happen next. (For this lesson, the focus will be on predicting characters’ actions, such as going to a particular place.)
- Beginning: Allow students to create a visual example of a character preparing to go to a specific location.
- Pair students with a supportive student, or an EL with the same home language (L1) if possible, to discuss where their character is going.
- Intermediate: Have students work with a partner.
- Ask learners to summarize the key information about predictions and clues in their own words.