Ready Steady Read Together
Explore: Non-Fiction Lesson 1
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
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What do you know and think?
In around 1332 BCE, a boy aged eight or nine was crowned pharaoh of all Egypt.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
B) What was the capital of Egypt?
C) Why was the River Nile important?
D) What was buried with Tutankhamun? Name at least 3 things.
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
elaborate
inhabitants
colossal
monuments
civilisation
afterlife
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
elaborate
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
elaborate
Your turn
colossal
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
inhabitants
monuments
civilisation
afterlife
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt. It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs. The people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods, including some pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form. To celebrate these deities they built elaborate temples, which housed towering statues.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt.
It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs.
The people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods,
including some pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form.
To celebrate these deities they built elaborate temples, which housed towering statues.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt. It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs. The people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods, including some pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form. To celebrate these deities they built elaborate temples, which housed towering statues.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt. It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs.
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
This means that Egypt would become a strong and important country and its leaders and decision-makers were the pharaohs. They are like our Prime Minister and MPs today, but with even more power.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
B) What was the capital of Egypt?
C) Why was the River Nile important?
D) What was buried with Tutankhamun? Name at least 3 things.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - the people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods, including some pharaohs - pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form
worshipped as gods
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
Text Mark Evidence - to celebrate these deities (pharaohs), they built elaborate temples - to honour some of the pharaohs after death they built colossal tombs, the pyramids
built monuments to honour them
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence like other pharaohs, Tutankhamun’s body was mummified
preserved their bodies
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
...was the capital city of Egypt from around 3150 to 2686 BCE.
Memphis
B) What was the capital of Egypt?
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence this (moist soil from flooding) allowed crops to grow well, which meant there was plenty of food available to feed the growing civilisation
to grow food
C) Why was the River Nile important?
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
hundreds of valuable objects
elaborate mask, (which is made from gold and semi-precious stones)
(a series of) three coffins
D) What was buried with Tutankhamun? Name at least 3 things.
gold jewellery
statues (of himself)
a board game
Click on each box to reveal acceptable answers
(richly decorated pieces of) furniture
a bed (with a curly tail, painted to look like a cow)
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for 'monuments'?
Which One's Right?
These great monuments were built from around 2630 BCE. Teams of workers hauled enormous blocks of rock up slopes and into place. It was backbreaking work, and slow – it took up to 30 years to build a single pyramid.
Which is closest in meaning to ‘backbreaking’?
A long and boring
B difficult and exhausting
D slow and careful
C ancient and sandy
True or False?
Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered inside a pyramid.
True
False
Tick Me
Why was Tutankhamun buried with objects?
Tick one
A He wanted visitors to his tomb to know he was wealthy.
B There was no place to store them after he died.
Check
C The people wanted to hide them from their enemies.
Click if correct
D He believed the objects would travel with him into the afterlife.
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: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Explore: Non-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?
In around 1332 BCE, a boy aged eight or nine was crowned pharaoh of all Egypt.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
B) What was the capital of Egypt?
C) Why was the River Nile important?
D) What was buried with Tutankhamun? Name at least 3 things.
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
elaborate
inhabitants
colossal
monuments
civilisation
afterlife
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
elaborate
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
elaborate
Your turn
colossal
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
inhabitants
monuments
civilisation
afterlife
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt. It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs. The people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods, including some pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form. To celebrate these deities they built elaborate temples, which housed towering statues.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt.
It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs.
The people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods,
including some pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form.
To celebrate these deities they built elaborate temples, which housed towering statues.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt. It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs. The people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods, including some pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form. To celebrate these deities they built elaborate temples, which housed towering statues.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
In around 3100 BCE, a kingdom grew up around the River Nile in Egypt. It would become a powerful nation, controlled by rulers called pharaohs.
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
This means that Egypt would become a strong and important country and its leaders and decision-makers were the pharaohs. They are like our Prime Minister and MPs today, but with even more power.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
B) What was the capital of Egypt?
C) Why was the River Nile important?
D) What was buried with Tutankhamun? Name at least 3 things.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - the people of ancient Egypt worshipped many gods, including some pharaohs - pharaohs, who were believed to be gods in human form
worshipped as gods
A) How do you know pharaohs were important in ancient Egypt?
Text Mark Evidence - to celebrate these deities (pharaohs), they built elaborate temples - to honour some of the pharaohs after death they built colossal tombs, the pyramids
built monuments to honour them
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence like other pharaohs, Tutankhamun’s body was mummified
preserved their bodies
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
...was the capital city of Egypt from around 3150 to 2686 BCE.
Memphis
B) What was the capital of Egypt?
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence this (moist soil from flooding) allowed crops to grow well, which meant there was plenty of food available to feed the growing civilisation
to grow food
C) Why was the River Nile important?
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
hundreds of valuable objects
elaborate mask, (which is made from gold and semi-precious stones)
(a series of) three coffins
D) What was buried with Tutankhamun? Name at least 3 things.
gold jewellery
statues (of himself)
a board game
Click on each box to reveal acceptable answers
(richly decorated pieces of) furniture
a bed (with a curly tail, painted to look like a cow)
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for 'monuments'?
Which One's Right?
These great monuments were built from around 2630 BCE. Teams of workers hauled enormous blocks of rock up slopes and into place. It was backbreaking work, and slow – it took up to 30 years to build a single pyramid.
Which is closest in meaning to ‘backbreaking’?
A long and boring
B difficult and exhausting
D slow and careful
C ancient and sandy
True or False?
Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered inside a pyramid.
True
False
Tick Me
Why was Tutankhamun buried with objects?
Tick one
A He wanted visitors to his tomb to know he was wealthy.
B There was no place to store them after he died.
Check
C The people wanted to hide them from their enemies.
Click if correct
D He believed the objects would travel with him into the afterlife.
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: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.