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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.
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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