Ready Steady Read Together
Where My Wellies Take Me: Poetry 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?
I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag. She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my bag.’
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
B) How does the poet show the theme of the importance of nature?
Explore
Let me read today's text
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My Own True Family
by Ted Hughes
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
Then she began to cackle and I began to quake.
She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake –
Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.
Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two.
Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew.’
This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me.
When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company,
My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
knobbly
stake
quake
felled
boughs
altered
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. 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
knobbly
Explore
Find Read Talk
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
knobbly
Your turn
quake
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
stake
felled
boughs
altered
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
My Own True Family
by Ted Hughes
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
Then she began to cackle and I began to quake.
She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake –
Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.
Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two.
Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew.’
This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me.
When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company,
My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.’
What did you notice?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.’
‘We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.’
‘Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.’
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.’
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
Reveal Explainer
The poet makes the setting sound mysterious because the child meets a stranger, a hag-like woman in the woods, with the child’s secret in her bag.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. 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 does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
B) How does the poet show the theme of the importance of nature?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence she began to cackle and I began to quake
scary, witch-like character
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
Text Mark Evidence they (oak-trees) said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family’
talking trees
Text Mark Evidence - unless you make a promise now – you are going to die - unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
warning/curse
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - we are the oak-trees and your own true family - root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew - my heart was a tree
transformation (part child, part tree)
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - we are the oak-trees and your own true family - my heart was a tree
connectedness to nature
B) How does the poet show the theme of the importance of nature?
Text Mark Evidence we are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye
threats to nature
Text Mark Evidence whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two
preserve nature
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which is the best match for 'felled'?
True or False?
The woman threatened to turn the child into a tree.
True
False
Match Me
Match each word to its correct definition:
3 boughs
4 altered
1 knobbly
2 quake
A changed
B branches
C tremble
D bumpy
Check
Click if correct
Sequence Me
Put the following events in the correct order:
A) The child woke up from a dream under the boughs of a tree.
B) The child was tied to a stake and surrounded by trees.
C) The trees asked the child to promise to plant two trees for each tree chopped down.
D) A child met an old woman in the oakwood.
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...
Reveal
draw what you imagine.
Sketch scenes or feelings inspired by the poem.
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: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Where My Wellies Take Me: Poetry 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?
I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag. She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my bag.’
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
B) How does the poet show the theme of the importance of nature?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
My Own True Family
by Ted Hughes
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag. I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag. She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’ Then she began to cackle and I began to quake. She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake – Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family. We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye. Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die. Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two. Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew.’ This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me. When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company, My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
knobbly
stake
quake
felled
boughs
altered
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. 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
knobbly
Explore
Find Read Talk
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag. I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag. She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
knobbly
Your turn
quake
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
stake
felled
boughs
altered
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
My Own True Family
by Ted Hughes
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag. I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag. She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’ Then she began to cackle and I began to quake. She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake – Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family. We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye. Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die. Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two. Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew.’ This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me. When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company, My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family. We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye. Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.’
What did you notice?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.’
‘We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.’
‘Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.’
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
They said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family. We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye. Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.’
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag. I met an old woman there – all knobbly stick and rag. She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
Reveal Explainer
The poet makes the setting sound mysterious because the child meets a stranger, a hag-like woman in the woods, with the child’s secret in her bag.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. 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 does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
B) How does the poet show the theme of the importance of nature?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence she began to cackle and I began to quake
scary, witch-like character
A) How does the poet create a mythical and mysterious mood?
Text Mark Evidence they (oak-trees) said: ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family’
talking trees
Text Mark Evidence - unless you make a promise now – you are going to die - unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
warning/curse
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - we are the oak-trees and your own true family - root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew - my heart was a tree
transformation (part child, part tree)
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - we are the oak-trees and your own true family - my heart was a tree
connectedness to nature
B) How does the poet show the theme of the importance of nature?
Text Mark Evidence we are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye
threats to nature
Text Mark Evidence whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two
preserve nature
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which is the best match for 'felled'?
True or False?
The woman threatened to turn the child into a tree.
True
False
Match Me
Match each word to its correct definition:
3 boughs
4 altered
1 knobbly
2 quake
A changed
B branches
C tremble
D bumpy
Check
Click if correct
Sequence Me
Put the following events in the correct order:
A) The child woke up from a dream under the boughs of a tree.
B) The child was tied to a stake and surrounded by trees.
C) The trees asked the child to promise to plant two trees for each tree chopped down.
D) A child met an old woman in the oakwood.
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...
Reveal
draw what you imagine.
Sketch scenes or feelings inspired by the poem.
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: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.