Rationale

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Rationale

• This is a Pre-Reading Activity
• By mixing up the sentences from the first
  paragraph of a book, . . .you can present
  students with a problem in paragraph logic.
  Presenting this problem to students helps them
  become more sensitive to the linear logic of
  paragraphs and the meaning and structure clues
  that reflect that logic.
• Guided Reading the Four-Blocks Way by Cunningham,
  Hall, and Cunningham

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Lesson Plan

• Type the first paragraph of the selection, one
  sentence per slide.
• Remove any extra slides!
• Go to Slide Sorter view and mix up the slides.
• Have the students access the presentation.
• Have them go to Slide Sorter view.
• Have them read each sentence and then put them in
  order by clicking and dragging.
• Have each student then fill in the prediction
  slide.
• This lesson can be printed out and graded for
  sequence accuracy as well as prediction logic.
• For more information on Who Mixed Up Our
  Sentences? See Guided Reading the Four-Blocks Way
  by Cunningham, Hall, and Cunningham pgs.126-127

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• She had everything she could possibly want.

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• But neither the lady-in-waiting, all dressed in
  white, nor the governess, all dressed in
  blackand much less the queen, all dressed in
  goldwould have thought, even for a moment, that
  the princess could be allowed to play with the
  other children.

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• There once was a princess who lived in a
  malachite palace.

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• Everything, that is, except for a friend.

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The Malachite Palace

• by Alma Flor Ada

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• On the other side of ornate iron gates, many
  children laughed and played in the fields beyond
  the palace.

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My Prediction