The moral of the story: listen to your parents! A concise reading passage introduces learners to Tom and the consequences of his choice to go out without a coat.

Concepts

winter, reading comprehension, literacy skills

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use a health lesson to investigate the story's claim that being in cold weather without a warm jacket can make you sick
• Attach to a reading packet for homework
• Allow learners to guess whom Tom is speaking to based on the evidence from the text

Classroom Considerations

• Passage does not include any dialogue tags, which may be confusing to struggling readers who have a hard time reading context clues
• Contains phrases that may require explanation for English learners (e.g. out of doors, put to bed)

Pros

• Provides space for longer answers
• Includes a sentence with a semicolon, as well as compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.1