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How does the digestive system help the body use food?
18 minutes · selected passages · drawing, oral or written responses
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Mary K. Corcoran · Book ID 8116
Open book: The Quest to Digest (STEM)[V] Catalogue identity and source text present. Selected read-along locations reviewed: 7, 14, 19, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38. Playback and other locations remain unverified.
optional companion — Grades 3–5
Mary K. Corcoran · Book ID 4224
Open book: The Circulatory Story[V] Selected EXTENSION read-along locations reviewed: 19. This verifies only the selected passages; playback duration and other locations remain unchecked.
[V] The available source text is STEM Book ID 8116, so that edition is used explicitly. Catalogue Book ID 4484 is not silently substituted.
Use the checked, band-specific reading locations in Materials. Read the selected sentences rather than whole captions or the full long read-along.
[V] Grades 3–5 EXTENSION: The Circulatory Story (Book ID 4224), read-along page 19, later caption, connects absorbed glucose from the digestive tract with nutrients arriving at body cells. Select only that connection; omit the longer chemistry explanation and personified dialogue. Fallback: 8116 already supports the nutrient-to-blood connection; omit 4224.
Trace mouth, esophagus, stomach and intestines in a simplified journey.
I can trace food past the stomach into the intestines.
The source notes below qualify what this draft can currently support.
No purchases required: access to the selected book(s), this page or plain paper, and a pencil or an oral/drawing response. A teacher read-aloud, shared screen or existing audio access can replace independent reading. Printing is optional.
Use only these selections for this grade band. Numbers refer to the read-along’s Page-N clips, which may differ from a printed book. Clip offsets start at that page clip, not at the start of the whole book. A page can replace its caption; wait for the indicated detail.
Scroll sideways in the reading table for instructions and review status.
| Book / ID | Reading location | What to read or pause on | Review status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Quest to Digest (STEM) · 8116 | Read-along pages 7, 14, 22, 26, 34 | Read only the teeth-breaking-food sentence, point to the esophagus/stomach labels, read the stomach-churning sentence, the small-intestine opening sentence and the waste-to-large-intestine sentence. Do not read the long captions in full; separate talking characters from organs. | [V] Location visually reviewed |
Reading plan: use a teacher read-aloud of the indicated sentences, capped at 200 words; do not autoplay every selected page in full. At a planning pace of 100 words per minute this reserves two minutes for reading, 90 seconds for navigation and 90 seconds for pauses. This is an estimate, not a measured classroom reading.
[VERIFY: a five-minute selected-reading rehearsal in the actual edition, including navigation and pauses.] If a source is unavailable, omit its dependent comparison and use only a checked anchor passage. If the anchor is unavailable, use the organizer to collect questions; that fallback does not meet the source-dependent science objectives.
| Word | Student-friendly definition | Source tag |
|---|---|---|
| esophagus | The food tube whose muscle movements carry swallowed food toward the stomach. | [V] 8116 |
| digestion | Breaking food down so the body can use nutrients. | [V] 8116 |
| absorb | Pass nutrients through the intestinal lining into the body’s transport system. | [V] 8116 |
| Minutes | Teacher action | Exact teacher questions | Likely responses | Partial/incorrect response and teacher move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Introduce the question and invite an initial response. | How does the digestive system help the body use food? | Ideas vary; accept observations and questions without certifying guesses. | If a student guesses, ask what evidence could help them check. |
| 5 | Read only the selected passages listed in Materials. Pause to identify the source-supported detail. | What happens after food reaches the stomach? Which parts come before and after it? | [V] Food travels beyond the stomach to the intestines; the stomach is one part of the process. | If students say the stomach does everything, trace the next organs and their distinct jobs. If a whole apple is drawn in a blood vessel, return to the breakdown and absorption passages. |
| 5 | Trace mouth → esophagus → stomach → intestines. Label arrows “food moves to”; use drawings or pointing rather than detailed chemistry. | What is your evidence? Which part still needs checking? | [V] Food travels beyond the stomach to the intestines; the stomach is one part of the process. | If students say the stomach does everything, trace the next organs and their distinct jobs. If a whole apple is drawn in a blood vessel, return to the breakdown and absorption passages. |
| 3 | Share through SOLO, SUPPORTED or LISTENING; students can draw, speak or dictate. | Which parts come before and after it? | A supported explanation or an explicit verification question. Predictions stay labelled as predictions. | If the response is incomplete, point back to one relevant detail rather than supplying a guessed event. |
| 3 | Collect the exit response using any participation mode. | Trace the simplified journey and name the part after the stomach. | Mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestines. It keeps going after the stomach. | If students say the stomach does everything, trace the next organs and their distinct jobs. If a whole apple is drawn in a blood vessel, return to the breakdown and absorption passages. |
The five-minute reading slot is for selected passages. If rehearsal exceeds it, reduce the selections to one checked example. The full read is an EXTENSION.
| Mode | Drawing response | Oral response | Written response |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOLO — work independently from the page, book or organizer. | Draw one example for: Trace the simplified journey and name the part after the stomach. Add or point to the evidence. | Privately rehearse an explanation, then tell it to the teacher or record it with an existing device. | Complete the organizer independently and add the evidence or a verification question. |
| SUPPORTED — use a partner, frames, word bank or teacher prompts. | Draw with a partner; use the vocabulary bank to label or dictate the key feature, stage or connection. | Use the frame: “I notice __. My evidence is __. I still need to check __.” A partner can prompt. | Write with a partner or scribe using the same frame. Choose words from the vocabulary table. |
| LISTENING — hear read-aloud/audio and respond without needing to read or write. | Listen to each short passage; draw a response or point to a teacher-drawn option. The teacher supplies any labels. | Listen and tell, point, gesture or use a communication aid to answer. No reading is required. | Dictate to an adult or partner, who writes the response and reads it back. The student does not need to read or write. |
Apply the chosen mode during the organizer, share and exit response. A listening response never requires the student to read or write; written output can be scribed.
Trace the simplified journey and name the part after the stomach.
| Level | Look-for | Sample student response | Teacher next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Got it | Meets the success criterion with source evidence or, in a gap outline, correctly identifies missing evidence. | Mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestines. It keeps going after the stomach. | Offer one new checked example to transfer the explanation. |
| Partly | Shows part of the criterion but leaves an explanation or evidence link incomplete. | I remembered the mouth and stomach but left out the food tube and intestines. | Revisit one selected passage and complete the missing evidence link. |
| Not yet | Shows the listed misconception or supplies unsupported details. | All the work happens in the stomach. | Model one supported example and have the student point, draw or retell it. |
The stomach does not complete digestion by itself.
Personified cells and food are characters used to explain a process; they do not pack bags or speak.
Fact vs. personification: the apple’s trip, talking cells and party language are narrative devices. The scientific explanation concerns organs, breakdown, absorption and waste; do not treat characters’ actions as anatomy.
A separate, clean organizer with space to draw or write. Students may dictate or point while someone records their response.
Open K–2 student pageEXTENSION: Read the complete anchor outside the timed lesson.
Extensions are optional teacher-created activities. They are not evidence of events or facts in the books.
[V] = supported by reviewed source text or specifically recorded page images; [P] = partly supported or inferred; [U] = unsupported by available source material. Page verification applies only where explicitly stated. These tags do not certify playback, human review or reproduction rights.
[V] 8116 describes food passing through mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine; digestion continues beyond the stomach.
[V] 8116 describes absorption through the small intestine lining and nutrients travelling through the bloodstream; waste continues to the large intestine and leaves the body.
[V] Grades 3–5 EXTENSION: The Circulatory Story (Book ID 4224), read-along page 19, later caption, connects absorbed glucose from the digestive tract with nutrients arriving at body cells. Select only that connection; omit the longer chemistry explanation and personified dialogue. Fallback: 8116 already supports the nutrient-to-blood connection; omit 4224.
[V] Numeric reading locations in Materials were checked against the recorded page images. They certify only those selected passages, not a whole-book or audiovisual review.
[VERIFY: duration of the selected reading in the actual edition, including navigation and pauses.] The 18-minute plan is a schedule, not a measured playback claim.
Catalogue identity was cross-checked against the repository’s authenticated 7 October 2026 catalogue snapshot. A catalogue entry is not a content claim. Raw texts and page images are excluded from this site.
Confirmed in this draft: The stomach is never the sole site completing digestion.
Confirmed in this draft: Personified characters are not presented as scientific facts.
Self-audit: no invented source quotations, page numbers or timestamps; no direct source quotations are published.
Self-audit: the timed steps total 18 minutes in this version. Selected-reading duration still requires rehearsal.
Self-audit: optional activities are labelled EXTENSION; no standards codes appear in this lesson.
Changes from the requested full lesson: kept missing locators explicit; marked source gaps/inferences; used selected passages; held unsupported activities instead of filling them from memory. This is an editorial draft, not a final accuracy approval.
Change reported in this pass: added visually checked read-along locations and grade-specific reading selections; retained every unresolved locator and the reading-rehearsal requirement.
Distinguish food breakdown, nutrient absorption and waste removal; connect absorption with blood transport.
I can distinguish breaking down food from absorbing nutrients and removing waste.
The source notes below qualify what this draft can currently support.
No purchases required: access to the selected book(s), this page or plain paper, and a pencil or an oral/drawing response. A teacher read-aloud, shared screen or existing audio access can replace independent reading. Printing is optional.
Use only these selections for this grade band. Numbers refer to the read-along’s Page-N clips, which may differ from a printed book. Clip offsets start at that page clip, not at the start of the whole book. A page can replace its caption; wait for the indicated detail.
Scroll sideways in the reading table for instructions and review status.
| Book / ID | Reading location | What to read or pause on | Review status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Quest to Digest (STEM) · 8116 | Read-along pages 19, 26, 30, 34, 38 | Read only the stomach-breakdown sentence, small-intestine opening, absorption-into-blood explanation, waste-to-large-intestine sentence and the final waste-exit explanation. Trace the route, then distinguish breakdown, absorption and removal. Omit chemistry lists, measurements and personified dialogue. | [V] Location visually reviewed |
Reading plan: use a teacher read-aloud of the indicated sentences, capped at 200 words; do not autoplay every selected page in full. At a planning pace of 100 words per minute this reserves two minutes for reading, 90 seconds for navigation and 90 seconds for pauses. This is an estimate, not a measured classroom reading.
[VERIFY: a five-minute selected-reading rehearsal in the actual edition, including navigation and pauses.] If a source is unavailable, omit its dependent comparison and use only a checked anchor passage. If the anchor is unavailable, use the organizer to collect questions; that fallback does not meet the source-dependent science objectives.
| Word | Student-friendly definition | Source tag |
|---|---|---|
| esophagus | The food tube whose muscle movements carry swallowed food toward the stomach. | [V] 8116 |
| digestion | Breaking food down so the body can use nutrients. | [V] 8116 |
| absorb | Pass nutrients through the intestinal lining into the body’s transport system. | [V] 8116 |
| Minutes | Teacher action | Exact teacher questions | Likely responses | Partial/incorrect response and teacher move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Introduce the question and invite an initial response. | How does the digestive system help the body use food? | Ideas vary; accept observations and questions without certifying guesses. | If a student guesses, ask what evidence could help them check. |
| 5 | Read only the selected passages listed in Materials. Pause to identify the source-supported detail. | How is breaking down food different from absorbing nutrients? What continues as waste, and what can be carried to cells? | [V] Breakdown makes food usable; absorption moves nutrients through the intestine lining, and remaining waste goes on toward leaving the body. | If students say the stomach does everything, trace the next organs and their distinct jobs. If a whole apple is drawn in a blood vessel, return to the breakdown and absorption passages. |
| 5 | Label where food is broken down, where nutrients are absorbed and where waste continues. Draw a separate arrow “absorbed nutrients enter blood” from the small intestine, not an apple travelling intact through blood vessels. | What is your evidence? Which part still needs checking? | [V] Breakdown makes food usable; absorption moves nutrients through the intestine lining, and remaining waste goes on toward leaving the body. | If students say the stomach does everything, trace the next organs and their distinct jobs. If a whole apple is drawn in a blood vessel, return to the breakdown and absorption passages. |
| 3 | Share through SOLO, SUPPORTED or LISTENING; students can draw, speak or dictate. | What continues as waste, and what can be carried to cells? | A supported explanation or an explicit verification question. Predictions stay labelled as predictions. | If the response is incomplete, point back to one relevant detail rather than supplying a guessed event. |
| 3 | Collect the exit response using any participation mode. | Explain digestion, absorption and waste removal as different jobs. | Digestion breaks food down; the small intestine absorbs nutrients; remaining waste passes onward to leave the body. | If students say the stomach does everything, trace the next organs and their distinct jobs. If a whole apple is drawn in a blood vessel, return to the breakdown and absorption passages. |
The five-minute reading slot is for selected passages. If rehearsal exceeds it, reduce the selections to one checked example. The full read is an EXTENSION.
| Mode | Drawing response | Oral response | Written response |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOLO — work independently from the page, book or organizer. | Draw one example for: Explain digestion, absorption and waste removal as different jobs. Add or point to the evidence. | Privately rehearse an explanation, then tell it to the teacher or record it with an existing device. | Complete the organizer independently and add the evidence or a verification question. |
| SUPPORTED — use a partner, frames, word bank or teacher prompts. | Draw with a partner; use the vocabulary bank to label or dictate the key feature, stage or connection. | Use the frame: “I notice __. My evidence is __. I still need to check __.” A partner can prompt. | Write with a partner or scribe using the same frame. Choose words from the vocabulary table. |
| LISTENING — hear read-aloud/audio and respond without needing to read or write. | Listen to each short passage; draw a response or point to a teacher-drawn option. The teacher supplies any labels. | Listen and tell, point, gesture or use a communication aid to answer. No reading is required. | Dictate to an adult or partner, who writes the response and reads it back. The student does not need to read or write. |
Apply the chosen mode during the organizer, share and exit response. A listening response never requires the student to read or write; written output can be scribed.
Explain digestion, absorption and waste removal as different jobs.
| Level | Look-for | Sample student response | Teacher next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Got it | Meets the success criterion with source evidence or, in a gap outline, correctly identifies missing evidence. | Digestion breaks food down; the small intestine absorbs nutrients; remaining waste passes onward to leave the body. | Offer one new checked example to transfer the explanation. |
| Partly | Shows part of the criterion but leaves an explanation or evidence link incomplete. | I named organs but treated absorption as the same as chewing. | Revisit one selected passage and complete the missing evidence link. |
| Not yet | Shows the listed misconception or supplies unsupported details. | The stomach sends whole apples around the blood. | Model one supported example and have the student point, draw or retell it. |
The stomach does not complete digestion by itself.
Personified cells and food are characters used to explain a process; they do not pack bags or speak.
Fact vs. personification: the apple’s trip, talking cells and party language are narrative devices. The scientific explanation concerns organs, breakdown, absorption and waste; do not treat characters’ actions as anatomy.
A separate, clean organizer with space to draw or write. Students may dictate or point while someone records their response.
Open Grades 3–5 student pageEXTENSION — Grades 3–5: Use 4224 to compare digestion with blood transport, keeping the nutrient connection anchored in 8116. If unavailable, 8116 already supplies that connection.
EXTENSION: Read the complete anchor outside the timed lesson.
Extensions are optional teacher-created activities. They are not evidence of events or facts in the books.
[V] = supported by reviewed source text or specifically recorded page images; [P] = partly supported or inferred; [U] = unsupported by available source material. Page verification applies only where explicitly stated. These tags do not certify playback, human review or reproduction rights.
[V] 8116 describes food passing through mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine; digestion continues beyond the stomach.
[V] 8116 describes absorption through the small intestine lining and nutrients travelling through the bloodstream; waste continues to the large intestine and leaves the body.
[V] Grades 3–5 EXTENSION: The Circulatory Story (Book ID 4224), read-along page 19, later caption, connects absorbed glucose from the digestive tract with nutrients arriving at body cells. Select only that connection; omit the longer chemistry explanation and personified dialogue. Fallback: 8116 already supports the nutrient-to-blood connection; omit 4224.
[V] Numeric reading locations in Materials were checked against the recorded page images. They certify only those selected passages, not a whole-book or audiovisual review.
[VERIFY: duration of the selected reading in the actual edition, including navigation and pauses.] The 18-minute plan is a schedule, not a measured playback claim.
Catalogue identity was cross-checked against the repository’s authenticated 7 October 2026 catalogue snapshot. A catalogue entry is not a content claim. Raw texts and page images are excluded from this site.
Confirmed in this draft: The stomach is never the sole site completing digestion.
Confirmed in this draft: Personified characters are not presented as scientific facts.
Self-audit: no invented source quotations, page numbers or timestamps; no direct source quotations are published.
Self-audit: the timed steps total 18 minutes in this version. Selected-reading duration still requires rehearsal.
Self-audit: optional activities are labelled EXTENSION; no standards codes appear in this lesson.
Changes from the requested full lesson: kept missing locators explicit; marked source gaps/inferences; used selected passages; held unsupported activities instead of filling them from memory. This is an editorial draft, not a final accuracy approval.
Change reported in this pass: added visually checked read-along locations and grade-specific reading selections; retained every unresolved locator and the reading-rehearsal requirement.