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Day 22 — What changed when the sign turned?Year 1 English · T1 W5–6 · Day 22 lesson

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Year 1 / English / Term 1 / Weeks 05 06

Part of the full two-week lesson sequence. Check the pack guide and taught point before teaching.

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Teacher copy: This page may include teaching prompts or answer keys. Answer keys in this public library can be viewed by anyone. Give learners a clean prompt, use checks as formative evidence, and change a case locally when prior access matters.

Goal: retell problem, action and result using story evidence and read a new controlled context. Codes: AC9E1LE03, AC9E1LY05, AC9E1LY04. Prepare: Day 22 choice, three blank event cards.

  1. Retrieve · 3 min. Children recall who made the sign and where it first faced. Ask “How do we know?”; reread aloud if the detail was not retained.
  2. Model · 5 min. Read the rest of the story aloud. On cards draw sign made, sign faced wall, sign turned/tested. Point out that the second visitor was a paper figure and cannot prove how all real people would respond.
  3. Guide · 7 min. Partners arrange cards and retell with “first, then, after that.” Ask whether the sign's colour is known; demonstrate “The story does not say.” Shared-read a selected Day 22 line, mapping st or sh/ch if present.
  4. Child try · 7 min. Child reads their chosen line without adult blending, selects a picture/gesture showing exactly what it says, then explains the Week 5 story's change via speech, sign, AAC or three cards.
  5. Exit · 3 min. Ask a focus child to point to the event that solved the story's problem and read one familiar word from their line. If sequence is reversed, reread the turning paragraph and try again with two cards.

Access/home/extension: Tactile orientation of a card permits nonvisual retell; adult may scribe the child's wording. Home retell uses three scrap-paper shapes. Extension: ask a new visitor which of two cue sizes works in the fictional model, without asserting the answer.