Ready Steady Read Together
The Island at the End of Everything: Fiction Lesson 1
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
Explore
What do you know and think?
But nobody comes here because they want to.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
B) Read the section beginning The island changes from a dark dot... How does the author describe the eagle symbol and what effect does it have on the reader?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
There are some places you would not want to go.
Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth. Even if you knew how beautiful the quiet is here, clean and fresh as a glass bell ringing. But nobody comes here because they want to.
My nanay told me this is how they brought her, but says it is always the same, no matter who you are or where you come from.
From your house you travel on horse or by foot, then on a boat. The men who row it cover their noses and mouths with cloths stuffed with herbs so they don’t have to share your breath. They will not help you onto the boat although your head aches and two weeks ago your legs began to hurt, then to numb. Maybe you stumble towards them, and they duck. They’d rather you rolled over their backs and into the sea than touch you. You sit and clutch your bundle of things from home, what you saved before it was burned. Clothes, a doll, some books, letters from your mother.
Somehow, it is always dusk when you approach.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
The island changes from a dark dot to a green heaven on the horizon. High on a cross-topped cliff that slopes towards the sea is a field of white flowers, looping strangely. It is not until you are closer that you see it forms the shape of an eagle, and it is not until you are very close that you see it is made of stones. This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice. The day is dropping to dark as you come into the harbour. When you step from the boat, the stars are setting out their little lights. Someone will be there to welcome you. They understand.
You look at the person who greeted you. You are changed now. Like flowers into stones, day into night. You will always be heavier, darkened, marked. Touched.
Nanay says that in the places outside, they have many names for our home. The island of the living dead. The island of no return. The island at the end of everything.
You are on Culion, where the oceans are blue and clear as the summer skies. Culion, where sea turtles dig the beaches and the trees brim with fruit.
Culion, island of lepers. Welcome home.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
lush
numb
nanay
dusk
brim with fruit
lepers
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
lush
Explore
Find Read Talk
There are some places you would not want to go.
Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
lush
Your turn
nanay
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
numb
dusk
brim with fruit
lepers
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
There are some places you would not want to go.
Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth. Even if you knew how beautiful the quiet is here, clean and fresh as a glass bell ringing. But nobody comes here because they want to.
My nanay told me this is how they brought her, but says it is always the same, no matter who you are or where you come from.
From your house you travel on horse or by foot, then on a boat. The men who row it cover their noses and mouths with cloths stuffed with herbs so they don’t have to share your breath. They will not help you onto the boat although your head aches and two weeks ago your legs began to hurt, then to numb. Maybe you stumble towards them, and they duck. They’d rather you rolled over their backs and into the sea than touch you. You sit and clutch your bundle of things from home, what you saved before it was burned. Clothes, a doll, some books, letters from your mother.
Somehow, it is always dusk when you approach.
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
The island changes from a dark dot to a green heaven on the horizon. High on a cross-topped cliff that slopes towards the sea is a field of white flowers, looping strangely. It is not until you are closer that you see it forms the shape of an eagle, and it is not until you are very close that you see it is made of stones. This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice.
The day is dropping to dark as you come into the harbour. When you step from the boat, the stars are setting out their little lights. Someone will be there to welcome you. They understand.
You look at the person who greeted you. You are changed now. Like flowers into stones, day into night. You will always be heavier, darkened, marked. Touched.
Nanay says that in the places outside, they have many names for our home. The island of the living dead. The island of no return. The island at the end of everything.
You are on Culion, where the oceans are blue and clear as the summer skies. Culion, where sea turtles dig the beaches and the trees brim with fruit.
Culion, island of lepers. Welcome home.
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice.
What did you notice?
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
This is when your heart hardens in your chest,
like petals turning into pebbles.
Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands,
even all the places outside our sea.
It means: stay away.
Do not come here unless you have no choice.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Nanay says that in the places outside, they have many names for our home. The island of the living dead. The island of no return.
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
One of the names for the island is the island of the living dead. I wonder what the author means by 'living dead'. It is spine-chilling and frightening. I get the impression that even though the island is beautiful, it might be a scary or unpleasant place to be.
Reveal Explainer
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
B) Read the section beginning The island changes from a dark dot... How does the author describe the eagle symbol and what effect does it have on the reader?
Find the answers
Text mark
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
no escape/remote
Text Mark Evidence - island of no return - island at the end of everything
warning of place of sickness
Text Mark Evidence island of lepers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - a field of white flowers.... forms the shape of an eagle...made of stones - your heart hardens in your chest like petals turning into pebbles
view of the island changes from beautiful to frightening
B) Read the section beginning The island changes from a dark dot... How does the author describe the eagle symbol and what effect does it have on the reader?
Text Mark Evidence the white eagle’s meaning is known across all surrounding islands...stay away...do not come here unless you have no choice
acts as a warning to visitors to the island and the reader
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for 'nanay'?
Which One's Right?
Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth.
Air thick with warmth suggests...
B it was cold and damp
A it was hot and humid
C it was about to rain
D it was dry with no moisture
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Tick Me
What does the author mean by ‘the day is dropping to dark’?
Tick one
A The day is becoming lighter.
B The day is getting warmer.
Check
C The day is ending and night is starting.
Click if correct
D The day is getting colder.
Match Me
Match each word to its correct definition:
dusk
leper
lush
numb
C sun is setting but it is not yet dark
B a person with a disease of the skin and nerves
A unable to feel anything
D full of life; rich with plants and nature
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
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Ready Steady Read Together
The Island at the End of Everything: Fiction Lesson 1
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
Explore
What do you know and think?
But nobody comes here because they want to.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
B) Read the section beginning The island changes from a dark dot... How does the author describe the eagle symbol and what effect does it have on the reader?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth. Even if you knew how beautiful the quiet is here, clean and fresh as a glass bell ringing. But nobody comes here because they want to. My nanay told me this is how they brought her, but says it is always the same, no matter who you are or where you come from. From your house you travel on horse or by foot, then on a boat. The men who row it cover their noses and mouths with cloths stuffed with herbs so they don’t have to share your breath. They will not help you onto the boat although your head aches and two weeks ago your legs began to hurt, then to numb. Maybe you stumble towards them, and they duck. They’d rather you rolled over their backs and into the sea than touch you. You sit and clutch your bundle of things from home, what you saved before it was burned. Clothes, a doll, some books, letters from your mother. Somehow, it is always dusk when you approach.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
The island changes from a dark dot to a green heaven on the horizon. High on a cross-topped cliff that slopes towards the sea is a field of white flowers, looping strangely. It is not until you are closer that you see it forms the shape of an eagle, and it is not until you are very close that you see it is made of stones. This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice. The day is dropping to dark as you come into the harbour. When you step from the boat, the stars are setting out their little lights. Someone will be there to welcome you. They understand. You look at the person who greeted you. You are changed now. Like flowers into stones, day into night. You will always be heavier, darkened, marked. Touched. Nanay says that in the places outside, they have many names for our home. The island of the living dead. The island of no return. The island at the end of everything. You are on Culion, where the oceans are blue and clear as the summer skies. Culion, where sea turtles dig the beaches and the trees brim with fruit. Culion, island of lepers. Welcome home.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
lush
numb
nanay
dusk
brim with fruit
lepers
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
lush
Explore
Find Read Talk
There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
lush
Your turn
nanay
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
numb
dusk
brim with fruit
lepers
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth. Even if you knew how beautiful the quiet is here, clean and fresh as a glass bell ringing. But nobody comes here because they want to. My nanay told me this is how they brought her, but says it is always the same, no matter who you are or where you come from. From your house you travel on horse or by foot, then on a boat. The men who row it cover their noses and mouths with cloths stuffed with herbs so they don’t have to share your breath. They will not help you onto the boat although your head aches and two weeks ago your legs began to hurt, then to numb. Maybe you stumble towards them, and they duck. They’d rather you rolled over their backs and into the sea than touch you. You sit and clutch your bundle of things from home, what you saved before it was burned. Clothes, a doll, some books, letters from your mother. Somehow, it is always dusk when you approach.
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
The island changes from a dark dot to a green heaven on the horizon. High on a cross-topped cliff that slopes towards the sea is a field of white flowers, looping strangely. It is not until you are closer that you see it forms the shape of an eagle, and it is not until you are very close that you see it is made of stones. This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice. The day is dropping to dark as you come into the harbour. When you step from the boat, the stars are setting out their little lights. Someone will be there to welcome you. They understand. You look at the person who greeted you. You are changed now. Like flowers into stones, day into night. You will always be heavier, darkened, marked. Touched. Nanay says that in the places outside, they have many names for our home. The island of the living dead. The island of no return. The island at the end of everything. You are on Culion, where the oceans are blue and clear as the summer skies. Culion, where sea turtles dig the beaches and the trees brim with fruit. Culion, island of lepers. Welcome home.
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice.
What did you notice?
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
This is when your heart hardens in your chest,
like petals turning into pebbles.
Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands,
even all the places outside our sea.
It means: stay away.
Do not come here unless you have no choice.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
This is when your heart hardens in your chest, like petals turning into pebbles. Nanay says the white eagle’s meaning is known all across all surrounding islands, even all the places outside our sea. It means: stay away. Do not come here unless you have no choice.
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Nanay says that in the places outside, they have many names for our home. The island of the living dead. The island of no return.
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
One of the names for the island is the island of the living dead. I wonder what the author means by 'living dead'. It is spine-chilling and frightening. I get the impression that even though the island is beautiful, it might be a scary or unpleasant place to be.
Reveal Explainer
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
B) Read the section beginning The island changes from a dark dot... How does the author describe the eagle symbol and what effect does it have on the reader?
Find the answers
Text mark
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
A) Read the section at the bottom of the text which begins Nanay says that in the places outside... What impressions do you get of the island from this part of the text?
no escape/remote
Text Mark Evidence - island of no return - island at the end of everything
warning of place of sickness
Text Mark Evidence island of lepers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - a field of white flowers.... forms the shape of an eagle...made of stones - your heart hardens in your chest like petals turning into pebbles
view of the island changes from beautiful to frightening
B) Read the section beginning The island changes from a dark dot... How does the author describe the eagle symbol and what effect does it have on the reader?
Text Mark Evidence the white eagle’s meaning is known across all surrounding islands...stay away...do not come here unless you have no choice
acts as a warning to visitors to the island and the reader
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for 'nanay'?
Which One's Right?
Even if I told you that we have oceans clear and blue as summer skies, filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forest-covered hills lush with birds that call through air thick with warmth.
Air thick with warmth suggests...
B it was cold and damp
A it was hot and humid
C it was about to rain
D it was dry with no moisture
From: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Tick Me
What does the author mean by ‘the day is dropping to dark’?
Tick one
A The day is becoming lighter.
B The day is getting warmer.
Check
C The day is ending and night is starting.
Click if correct
D The day is getting colder.
Match Me
Match each word to its correct definition:
dusk
leper
lush
numb
C sun is setting but it is not yet dark
B a person with a disease of the skin and nerves
A unable to feel anything
D full of life; rich with plants and nature
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
Copyright Notice
This document has been supplied under a CLA Licence with specific terms of use. It is protected by copyright and, save as may be permitted by law, it may not be further copied, stored, re-copied electronically or otherwise shared, even for internal purposes, without the prior further permission of the Rightsholder. Extracts sourced from: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave © 2017 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.