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Planning a first step for missing schoolwork
Grades 6–8 · Ready-made original
Learning goal
Check missing-work directions and choose a realistic first step.
Materials
The student page below and a pencil.
Opening question · 3 minutes
“What should they check before catching up?”
A school situation · 5 minutes
Riley returns after an absence. The class page lists a reading response, a practice sheet, and a group task as missing. Riley does not know which work is still required, whether the deadline changed, or how to complete the group task alone.
One possible response · 4 minutes
Ask which tasks are still required, which comes first, and how the group task will be handled.
Practice · 10 minutes
What should they check before catching up?
1. A student returns to a list of five tasks. Two may no longer be required.
2. A missed task was done in a group and the student is now working alone.
Possible answers
1. “Which of these tasks do I still need to complete?”
2. “How should I complete this task, and what support is available?”
Student page · 5 minutes
Use the ready-to-print student page at the end of this lesson. Students may write, draw, or give an answer aloud.
Exit question · 3 minutes
“Choose one of the stories. What could the student say or do first?”
Student page to print
Planning a first step for missing schoolwork
Write, draw, or say your answer. You may pass.
An example
Riley returns after an absence. The class page lists a reading response, a practice sheet, and a group task as missing. Riley does not know which work is still required, whether the deadline changed, or how to complete the group task alone.
What should they check before catching up?
One possible response: Ask which tasks are still required, which comes first, and how the group task will be handled.
1. A student returns to a list of five tasks. Two may no longer be required.
What should they check before catching up?
2. A missed task was done in a group and the student is now working alone.
What should they check before catching up?
One sentence to keep
Choose one story above. Write the first thing the person could say or do.