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Day 26 — Character, setting, eventYear 1 English · T1 W5–6 · Day 26 lesson

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Year 1 / English / Term 1 / Weeks 05 06

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Goal: distinguish character from setting and read an independent two-event line. Codes: AC9E1LE03, AC9E1LY04, AC9E1LY05. Prepare: Day 26 choice, blank character/place/event cards.

  1. Retrieve · 3 min. Reread a known sh/ch word and a known st/nd word appropriate to the learner's route. Ask which sound needs one box and which blend two.
  2. Model · 5 min. Begin reading The missing middle picture aloud. Place Ada and Neri on character cards; the imagined art room is a setting. Say that drawn path and park do not reveal any real child's location.
  3. Guide · 7 min. Read the middle paragraph aloud. Partners sort “Ada,” “art room,” and “picture slid under table” into character, setting, event. Read a chosen Day 26 child line together, keeping its printed facts distinct from the adult story.
  4. Child try · 7 min. Child independently reads their selected line and sorts its actors or places. They predict one possible ending to the adult story and mark it as a prediction, not already established fact.
  5. Exit · 3 min. Ask a focus child to name a character and a setting from the heard story and one action from their own print. If categories blur, revisit with tactile person/place/action symbols.

Access/home/extension: Use objects, tactile outlines, large print or AAC. Home adult reads the story opening; no family/community disclosure. Extension gives two possible middle pictures and explains which clue supports a prediction.