Ready Steady Read Together
Everything Under the Sun: Non-Fiction Lesson 5
Quiz Time
Start
Questions about the book so far...
Picture Me
Which picture is the best match for the word 'pattern'?
Link Me
Link each word to its correct meaning:
A bees that build, clean or take care of baby bees
1 hexagon
2 circular tube
B a shape with six sides
C to care for something young until it grows up
Check
3 raise
Click if correct
D a round tunnel like a straw
4 worker bees
True or False?
A queen bee is smaller than other bees but lives longer.
True
False
Match Me
Match each question with the correct answer from the text:
How do bees make hexagon shapes?
Why is there a queen bee?
How do bumblebees fly?
How do bees make honey?
B to lay eggs for the hive
A wax cools and changes shape
D by sharing nectar with other bees
C by twisting their wings to stay afloat in the air
Click if correct
Check
Speaking Spotlight
Live Action
Explore
Live-Action
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Create a "live-action" documentary,acting as journalists or scientists explaining one topic from this unit.
Teacher Note: Look at plan for details.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
animal kingdom
hatched
defend
protect
tentacles
pouch
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From: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
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Adapted from: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
Teach
Your turn
Practise & Apply
Use your text
Practise & Apply
1) Find and copy two words that can mean ‘kept away from harm or danger’.
Alligator mums carry their newly hatched babies around inside their jaws, to keep them safe until they can learn to defend themselves. Octopus mums can lay up to 200,000 eggs, which they protect for a very long time, sometimes for as long as four years, until the eggs hatch.
RevealExtract
RevealText Marks
Practise & Apply
2) Match the animal on the left with the how they keep their babies safe on the right:
Take turns looking after babies in the group
Orangutans
Carry babies in their jaws
Elephants
Protect the eggs for many years
Alligators
Check
Carry them constantly for months
Octopus
3) Put these in the correct order to show how seahorse dads care for their babies. Write a number 1-5 in each box.
He squeezes the pouch and out pop hundreds of baby seahorses.
The dad seahorse gets eggs from the mum seahorse.
The baby seahorses grow bigger in the pouch.
The seahorse eggs hatch.
Reveal Answer
He puts the eggs inside a pouch in his tummy.
Practise & Apply
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
staycurious.
Reveal
Explore topics you've never considered before.
If you like this book, you might like...
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: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield, © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Everything Under the Sun: Non-Fiction Lesson 5
Quiz Time
Start
Questions about the book so far...
Picture Me
Which picture is the best match for the word 'pattern'?
Link Me
Link each word to its correct meaning:
A bees that build, clean or take care of baby bees
1 hexagon
2 circular tube
B a shape with six sides
C to care for something young until it grows up
Check
3 raise
Click if correct
D a round tunnel like a straw
4 worker bees
True or False?
A queen bee is smaller than other bees but lives longer.
True
False
Match Me
Match each question with the correct answer from the text:
How do bees make hexagon shapes?
Why is there a queen bee?
How do bumblebees fly?
How do bees make honey?
B to lay eggs for the hive
A wax cools and changes shape
D by sharing nectar with other bees
C by twisting their wings to stay afloat in the air
Click if correct
Check
Speaking Spotlight
Live Action
Explore
Live-Action
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Create a "live-action" documentary,acting as journalists or scientists explaining one topic from this unit.
Teacher Note: Look at plan for details.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
animal kingdom
hatched
defend
protect
tentacles
pouch
Explore
From: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
Teach
Your turn
Practise & Apply
Use your text
Practise & Apply
1) Find and copy two words that can mean ‘kept away from harm or danger’.
Alligator mums carry their newly hatched babies around inside their jaws, to keep them safe until they can learn to defend themselves. Octopus mums can lay up to 200,000 eggs, which they protect for a very long time, sometimes for as long as four years, until the eggs hatch.
RevealExtract
RevealText Marks
Practise & Apply
2) Match the animal on the left with the how they keep their babies safe on the right:
Take turns looking after babies in the group
Orangutans
Carry babies in their jaws
Elephants
Protect the eggs for many years
Alligators
Check
Carry them constantly for months
Octopus
3) Put these in the correct order to show how seahorse dads care for their babies. Write a number 1-5 in each box.
He squeezes the pouch and out pop hundreds of baby seahorses.
The dad seahorse gets eggs from the mum seahorse.
The baby seahorses grow bigger in the pouch.
The seahorse eggs hatch.
Reveal Answer
He puts the eggs inside a pouch in his tummy.
Practise & Apply
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
staycurious.
Reveal
Explore topics you've never considered before.
If you like this book, you might like...
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: Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield, © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.