Grade 2 · Lesson 63 — All four devices

What this lesson is

Lesson 11 of 11 on alliteration. The single idea is: Rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration — I know all four. The tool the children are handed is the question “Do the sounds match, and where?” — by the end of the topic that question, not the teacher, settles every case. Held constant today: Review and celebration. No new content. The worked example is built on I'm getting you out of there to anywhere, quick!, ringing getting you out.

Recall — sixty seconds, before anything new

Retrieve: Rhyme · Two-level analysis in context. Ask for it before you introduce anything, take the answers from boards rather than from hands so you see all thirty, and do not re-teach — note who has lost it and carry on. This is the middle of the launch: context, then this, then why it matters. Only what today leans on — a minute spent retrieving something unrelated costs the same and buys nothing, and the child who cannot recall the prerequisite is the one you will lose in the I-do.

How it goes

1. Sixty seconds of retrieval opens it: “Yesterday: all four devices. Quick — one together.” Same language as when it was taught, a new example. If the class cannot do this, that is today's real work — stop and reteach.
2. Ten seconds on why it matters — “When we know words well, we can learn other languages too.” Your words, not those; it is a different reason every lesson so what lands is the idea rather than a sentence they can recite.
3. You name the one idea: Rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration — I know all four. Then the plan — what it is, the question we ask, and that we will find them together.
4. Then you do one yourself, on screen, one click per move: I'm getting you out of there to anywhere, quick! · the question · ring getting you out · name it alliteration. Do it exactly the way you want it done — this is the task they are about to do on their boards, not an easier one.
5. You build the same thing on the board and leave it up for alliteration. The four steps are identical in every lesson of this unit — sentence, question, test, answer — so the children read the method rather than the layout, and today's board shows I'm getting you out of there to anywhere, quick! still marked when they start work.
6. The We-do runs 4 items on whiteboards — It was better than the alternative, don't you think? (p.68), Stop it, and I will show you more alliteration. (p.71), Gentle gray geese gathered., The wild wind whistled around the wall.. You are scanning for who applies the question and who is guessing from meaning; those look identical on a right answer and completely different on a wrong one.
7. Exit directions in full, standing still, before anyone moves — Sheet and pencil · Ask the question on every item · Find the alliteration in each one. Then they work alone, with the same worked example printed at the head of their sheet.
8. Close on Forest thing, we want to be thy friends. — an item they have not met, so it measures rather than reminds — then the line they leave with: “Alliteration is about sound.”
9. Watch for: Judges by first LETTER instead of first sound — The letter is visible and the sound is not — and for four lessons they agreed. If you see it: “Say them. Do they START the same? 'City' and 'cat' do not.” (Remedial sheet 24.)