Paired Passages Lesson: Firsthand vs. Secondhand Accounts, Grades 5-6

Two people tell you about the same game and you get two different stories. This lesson teaches students to tell a firsthand account (written by someone who was there) from a secondhand one (written by someone who was not), and to compare what each account pays attention to.

What's inside

• 16 slides, with speaker notes on all 16
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Paired texts, 2 pages: Text A, "What I Learned from a Fourth Grader" (a player's account), and Text B, "Lunchtime Tournament Packs the Gym" (a family bulletin report), one page each
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 7 pages

Answer key included

Want this for a different grade? Request a lesson