Ready Steady Read Together
The Travel Book: Non-Fiction Lesson 3
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?
From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals...
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow is the Royal Palace held up? Give two pieces of evidence.
A) Why is Netherlands referred to as one of the low countries?
B) How did windmills change life in the Netherlands?
C) Name three ‘amazing things to see’ in the Netherlands.
D) Name two things you must do to play the game Fierljeppen successfully.
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
sea level
tragically
outbreak
excess
native
originated
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. 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
sea level
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
sea level
Your turn
outbreak
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
tragically
excess
native
originated
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands makes up the Low Countries – an area of Europe that is extremely flat and lies completely below sea level. From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals, the Netherlands is packed with amazing things to see.
What did you notice?
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands makes up the Low Countries –
an area of Europe that is extremely flat and lies completely below sea level.
From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals,
the Netherlands is packed with amazing things to see.
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands makes up the Low Countries – an area of Europe that is extremely flat and lies completely below sea level. From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals, the Netherlands is packed with amazing things to see.
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question Only How is the Royal Palace held up? Give two pieces of evidence.
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Because Amsterdam was originally a swamp, all of the city’s buildings are built on long wooden poles pushed deep into the sandy river floor. The Royal Palace is perched on 13,659 poles!
Teacher Model Question Only How is the Royal Palace held up? Give two pieces of evidence.
The words Royal Palace are clues. I will ‘Look Around’ for these words and read the sentences around them. I will ‘Find and Take’ the answer. All buildings are built on long wooden poles, so the Royal Palace must be, too. It says that it is ‘perched on 13,659 poles’.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) Why is Netherlands referred to as one of the low countries?
B) How did windmills change life in the Netherlands?
C) Name three ‘amazing things to see’ in the Netherlands.
D) Name two things you must do to play the game Fierljeppen successfully.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Why is Netherlands referred to as one of the low countries?
Text Mark Evidence (it is) an area of Europe that is extremely flat
Text Mark Evidence (it) lies completely below sea level
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence windmills pump excess water from the land back to the river
they were a tool to manage floods
B) How did windmills change life in the Netherlands?
Text Mark Evidence the land can be farmed (once the water was removed)
they made the land usable
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the windmills (in Zaanes Schans)
C) Name three ‘amazing things to see’ in the Netherlands.
Text Mark Evidence (the famous) tulip gardens (of Keukenhof)
Text Mark Evidence (Amsterdam’s) historic canals
Click on the boxes to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence running towards the river with a long pole in your hand
D) Name two things you must do to play the game Fierljeppen successfully.
Text Mark Evidence leaping over the water (as far as possible)
Text Mark Evidence climbing to the top of the pole
Click on the boxes to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which picture is the best match for the word 'excess'?
Which One's Right?
The master of art produced more than 2,100 paintings, drawings and sketches. Tragically though, he only sold one of them during his lifetime.
Which is the best definition for the word ‘tragically’?
B thankfully
A fortunately
D lazily
C sadly
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Tick Me
Why was Anne Frank famous?
Tick two
A) She was a teenager.
B) She wrote a diary.
Check
C) Her diary was published in 1945.
Click if correct
D) Her diary has been translated into many languages.
Fill the Gaps
translated
detailing
published
From this cramped space, Anne wrote her diary, her life in hiding from Adolf Hitler’s Nazis. Her diary wasafter her death in 1945 and has since been into many languages.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
retell what you learn.
Reveal
Share new knowledge with friends or family.
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 and adapted for accessibility from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li, © 2015 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
Extract from: The Travel Book (text: Malcolm Croft/illustrations: Maggie Li) © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
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Ready Steady Read Together
The Travel Book: Non-Fiction Lesson 3
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?
From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals...
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow is the Royal Palace held up? Give two pieces of evidence.
A) Why is Netherlands referred to as one of the low countries?
B) How did windmills change life in the Netherlands?
C) Name three ‘amazing things to see’ in the Netherlands.
D) Name two things you must do to play the game Fierljeppen successfully.
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
sea level
tragically
outbreak
excess
native
originated
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. 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
sea level
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
sea level
Your turn
outbreak
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
tragically
excess
native
originated
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands makes up the Low Countries – an area of Europe that is extremely flat and lies completely below sea level. From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals, the Netherlands is packed with amazing things to see.
What did you notice?
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands makes up the Low Countries –
an area of Europe that is extremely flat and lies completely below sea level.
From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals,
the Netherlands is packed with amazing things to see.
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands makes up the Low Countries – an area of Europe that is extremely flat and lies completely below sea level. From the windmills in Zaanes Schans to the famous tulip gardens of Keukenhof and Amsterdam’s historic canals, the Netherlands is packed with amazing things to see.
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question Only How is the Royal Palace held up? Give two pieces of evidence.
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Because Amsterdam was originally a swamp, all of the city’s buildings are built on long wooden poles pushed deep into the sandy river floor. The Royal Palace is perched on 13,659 poles!
Teacher Model Question Only How is the Royal Palace held up? Give two pieces of evidence.
The words Royal Palace are clues. I will ‘Look Around’ for these words and read the sentences around them. I will ‘Find and Take’ the answer. All buildings are built on long wooden poles, so the Royal Palace must be, too. It says that it is ‘perched on 13,659 poles’.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) Why is Netherlands referred to as one of the low countries?
B) How did windmills change life in the Netherlands?
C) Name three ‘amazing things to see’ in the Netherlands.
D) Name two things you must do to play the game Fierljeppen successfully.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Why is Netherlands referred to as one of the low countries?
Text Mark Evidence (it is) an area of Europe that is extremely flat
Text Mark Evidence (it) lies completely below sea level
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence windmills pump excess water from the land back to the river
they were a tool to manage floods
B) How did windmills change life in the Netherlands?
Text Mark Evidence the land can be farmed (once the water was removed)
they made the land usable
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the windmills (in Zaanes Schans)
C) Name three ‘amazing things to see’ in the Netherlands.
Text Mark Evidence (the famous) tulip gardens (of Keukenhof)
Text Mark Evidence (Amsterdam’s) historic canals
Click on the boxes to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence running towards the river with a long pole in your hand
D) Name two things you must do to play the game Fierljeppen successfully.
Text Mark Evidence leaping over the water (as far as possible)
Text Mark Evidence climbing to the top of the pole
Click on the boxes to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which picture is the best match for the word 'excess'?
Which One's Right?
The master of art produced more than 2,100 paintings, drawings and sketches. Tragically though, he only sold one of them during his lifetime.
Which is the best definition for the word ‘tragically’?
B thankfully
A fortunately
D lazily
C sadly
From: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not share.
Tick Me
Why was Anne Frank famous?
Tick two
A) She was a teenager.
B) She wrote a diary.
Check
C) Her diary was published in 1945.
Click if correct
D) Her diary has been translated into many languages.
Fill the Gaps
translated
detailing
published
From this cramped space, Anne wrote her diary, her life in hiding from Adolf Hitler’s Nazis. Her diary wasafter her death in 1945 and has since been into many languages.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
retell what you learn.
Reveal
Share new knowledge with friends or family.
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 and adapted for accessibility from: The Travel Book by Malcolm Croft & Maggie Li, © 2015 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
Extract from: The Travel Book (text: Malcolm Croft/illustrations: Maggie Li) © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
detailing
published
translated