Ready Steady Read Together
Explore: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Many plants, from towering trees to tiny flowers on the forest floor, start out as seeds.
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) Name the type of seed which matches each seed dispersal method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats and water.
B) What are the four things that a seed needs to grow?
D) How is the key in the section ‘Parts of a Plant’ useful?
C) How many different types of plants have been discovered?
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!
essential
process
ecosystems
nutrients
minerals
reproduce
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
essential
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
essential
Your turn
ecosystems
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
process
nutrients
minerals
reproduce
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
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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...
For a seed to grow, it needs soil, water, and light. But first, it needs a place to grow, in a spot with everything it needs, away from its parent plant. Seeds can be spread, or dispersed, in different ways.
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
For a seed to grow, it needs soil, water, and light.
But first, it needs a place to grow,
in a spot with everything it needs,
away from its parent plant.
Seeds can be spread, or dispersed, in different ways.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
For a seed to grow, it needs soil, water, and light. But first, it needs a place to grow, in a spot with everything it needs, away from its parent plant. Seeds can be spread, or dispersed, in different ways.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Match each type of seed dispersal to its method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats, water.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
• Explosion – Some seed pods burst open, flinging the seeds away. (Viola seed)
A) Match each type of seed dispersal to its method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats, water.
Reveal Explainer
The heading, ‘A Seed’s Journey’, helps me find the section on the page about seed dispersal. I will look for the first method listed, explosion. I can see that it is shown as a purple dotted line. The Key shows me that the viola seed is dispersed by explosion.
Teach
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Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) Name the type of seed which matches each seed dispersal method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats and water.
B) What are the four things that a seed needs to grow?
D) How is the key in the section ‘Parts of a Plant’ useful?
C) How many different types of plants have been discovered?
Find the answers
Text mark
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
explosion
viola seed
A) Name the type of seed which matches each seed dispersal method.
animal poo
strawberry seed
wind
dandelion clock
animal coats
lesser burdock seed
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
water
silver birch seed
Acceptable Answers
soil
B) What are the four things that a seed needs to grow?
water
light
a place to grow (in a spot with everything it needs away from its parent plant) or a spot with everything it needs (away from its parent plant)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Acceptable Answers
C) How many different types of plants have been discovered?
Text Mark Evidence ...species have been discovered.
(roughly) 400,000
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence 'Parts of a plant'
The colour-coded lines show where water, nutrients and sugar are used/travel through the plant.
D) How is the key in the section ‘Parts of a Plant’ useful?
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A natural bits in soil to help plants grow
1 ecosystem
B a series of steps to make something happen
2 process
C to make more of the same kind
Check
3 minerals
Click if correct
D living things and where they live
4 reproduce
Find Me
Find the word whichmeans ‘necessary’.
While most living things get their energy from eating food, plants have the clever ability to make their own energy, using light from the Sun. Plants are an essential part of Earth’s ecosystems. Their branches and leaves provide shelter, and they are food for many animals.
Discuss then check
essential
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
True or False?
All types of plants have flowers.
True
False
Match Me
Match each part of a plant with its function:
3 stem
4 roots
1 flower
2 leaf
C take in water an nutrients from the soil
B where the seeds form to create new plants
A use sunlight to make energy
D carries water and nutrients around the plant
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...
use graphs and pictures.
Reveal
Pay attention to visuals that explain the topic.
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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Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
Explore: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Many plants, from towering trees to tiny flowers on the forest floor, start out as seeds.
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) Name the type of seed which matches each seed dispersal method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats and water.
B) What are the four things that a seed needs to grow?
D) How is the key in the section ‘Parts of a Plant’ useful?
C) How many different types of plants have been discovered?
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!
essential
process
ecosystems
nutrients
minerals
reproduce
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
essential
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
essential
Your turn
ecosystems
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
process
nutrients
minerals
reproduce
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...
For a seed to grow, it needs soil, water, and light. But first, it needs a place to grow, in a spot with everything it needs, away from its parent plant. Seeds can be spread, or dispersed, in different ways.
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
For a seed to grow, it needs soil, water, and light.
But first, it needs a place to grow,
in a spot with everything it needs,
away from its parent plant.
Seeds can be spread, or dispersed, in different ways.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
For a seed to grow, it needs soil, water, and light. But first, it needs a place to grow, in a spot with everything it needs, away from its parent plant. Seeds can be spread, or dispersed, in different ways.
Explore
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Match each type of seed dispersal to its method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats, water.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
• Explosion – Some seed pods burst open, flinging the seeds away. (Viola seed)
A) Match each type of seed dispersal to its method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats, water.
Reveal Explainer
The heading, ‘A Seed’s Journey’, helps me find the section on the page about seed dispersal. I will look for the first method listed, explosion. I can see that it is shown as a purple dotted line. The Key shows me that the viola seed is dispersed by explosion.
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) Name the type of seed which matches each seed dispersal method: explosion, animal poo, wind, animal coats and water.
B) What are the four things that a seed needs to grow?
D) How is the key in the section ‘Parts of a Plant’ useful?
C) How many different types of plants have been discovered?
Find the answers
Text mark
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
explosion
viola seed
A) Name the type of seed which matches each seed dispersal method.
animal poo
strawberry seed
wind
dandelion clock
animal coats
lesser burdock seed
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
water
silver birch seed
Acceptable Answers
soil
B) What are the four things that a seed needs to grow?
water
light
a place to grow (in a spot with everything it needs away from its parent plant) or a spot with everything it needs (away from its parent plant)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Acceptable Answers
C) How many different types of plants have been discovered?
Text Mark Evidence ...species have been discovered.
(roughly) 400,000
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence 'Parts of a plant'
The colour-coded lines show where water, nutrients and sugar are used/travel through the plant.
D) How is the key in the section ‘Parts of a Plant’ useful?
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A natural bits in soil to help plants grow
1 ecosystem
B a series of steps to make something happen
2 process
C to make more of the same kind
Check
3 minerals
Click if correct
D living things and where they live
4 reproduce
Find Me
Find the word whichmeans ‘necessary’.
While most living things get their energy from eating food, plants have the clever ability to make their own energy, using light from the Sun. Plants are an essential part of Earth’s ecosystems. Their branches and leaves provide shelter, and they are food for many animals.
Discuss then check
essential
From: Explore by Lizzie Munsey © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
True or False?
All types of plants have flowers.
True
False
Match Me
Match each part of a plant with its function:
3 stem
4 roots
1 flower
2 leaf
C take in water an nutrients from the soil
B where the seeds form to create new plants
A use sunlight to make energy
D carries water and nutrients around the plant
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...
use graphs and pictures.
Reveal
Pay attention to visuals that explain the topic.
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.