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Day 19 — Keep the younger reader in the roomYear 7 English · T1 W3–4 · Day 19 lesson

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Year 7 / English / Term 1 / Weeks 03 04

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Codes: AC9E7LA04, AC9E7LY02, AC9E7LY06. Goal: test and revise an explanation for a specific audience without overstating evidence. Prepare: Text D and the student's Day 18 draft; optional invented contexts: 50 model seats, 100 paper squares, 20 numbered cards.

  1. Set a test · 2 min. “A reader should be able to answer without the author standing beside the page.” Agree on two questions: “What is the whole?” and “What is being compared?”
  2. Demonstrate · 5 min. Read a purposely weak line: “It is 36, so 36% is 36.” Ask which context is missing. Repair: “If the whole has 100 seats, 36% names 36 seats.” Keep the condition attached to the result.
  3. Plan feedback · 5 min. Partners choose roles: reader and listener/author; a private teacher route is equally valid. The reader points to a confusing word or missing label, not a person's ability. Authors note the exact question.
  4. Try/revise · 7 min. Use a learner route to test yesterday's explanation with a peer/teacher or an imagined reader using the two fixed questions. Revise an opening, caption or connective. Explain why the revision helps this audience.
  5. Conference · 4 min. Sample two revisions. Check whether a new shortcut creates an overclaim: 3:4 is not automatically 3/4 of the whole; 36 and 36% need a whole and units. Praise evidence-bound wording, not display polish.
  6. Exit · 2 min. “My reader asked ; I changed ___ because .” Record actual reader test versus simulated self-check; both aid planning but are different evidence.

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