Ready Steady Read Together
The Final Year: Poetry 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?
I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
B) How does the poet show the importance of good mental health?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Oh, so ya wanna know about The Beast, right?
OK so it first happened in Year 2
though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums
when I was proper little
but on this day summat happened to spark it
to release it
can’t even remember what it was
someone nicked my pencil maybe
or a push in the line
on the way back from assembly.
All I remember is from
somewhere really deep down in me
I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames
and the next thing I know I’m curled up in
the Sunshine Room cryin and cold
and, man, I’m tired so tired
and my teacher Miss Nolan’s rubbin my back and
the whole room’s in bits the whole world is.
I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of
some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
It happened again a week later so they
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at
school to talk about my issues and then I had
to go see this woman every week, Miss Hough,
a counsellor, to talk and draw
and find a way to keep The Beast at bay.
Two years it took us. Two years of talking
and drawin and learnin to breathe in a way that let
me control that beast, rather than it controllin me.
So if ya see me startin to breathe
In a strange way right, I in’t crazy or nothing.
I’m self-regulatin, innit.
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
spark
issues
release
counsellor
keep at bay
self-regulatin
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. 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
spark
Explore
Find Read Talk
OK so it first happened in Year 2
though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums
when I was proper little
but on this day summat happened to spark it
to release it
can’t even remember what it was
someone nicked my pencil maybe
or a push in the line
on the way back from assembly.
Reveal Vocabulary
spark
Your turn
release
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
issues
counsellor
keep at bay
self-regulatin
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Oh, so ya wanna know about The Beast, right?
OK so it first happened in Year 2
though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums
when I was proper little
but on this day summat happened to spark it
to release it
can’t even remember what it was
someone nicked my pencil maybe
or a push in the line
on the way back from assembly.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
All I remember is from
somewhere really deep down in me
I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames
and the next thing I know I’m curled up in
the Sunshine Room cryin and cold
and, man, I’m tired so tired
and my teacher Miss Nolan’s rubbin my back and
the whole room’s in bits the whole world is.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of
some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
It happened again a week later so they
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at
school to talk about my issues and then I had
to go see this woman every week, Miss Hough,
a counsellor, to talk and draw
and find a way to keep The Beast at bay.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Two years it took us. Two years of talking
and drawin and learnin to breathe in a way that let
me control that beast, rather than it controllin me.
So if ya see me startin to breathe
In a strange way right, I in’t crazy or nothing.
I’m self-regulatin, innit.
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
All I remember is from
somewhere really deep down in me
I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
like fire and smoke all mixed together
and my fists are flames
and the next thing I know I’m curled up in
the Sunshine Room cryin and cold
and, man, I’m tired so tired
What did you notice?
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
All I remember is from
somewhere really deep down in me
I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
like fire and smoke all mixed together
and my fists are flames
and the next thing I know I’m curled up in
the Sunshine Room cryin and cold
and, man, I’m tired so tired
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
All I remember is from
somewhere really deep down in me
I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
like fire and smoke all mixed together
and my fists are flames
and the next thing I know I’m curled up in
the Sunshine Room cryin and cold
and, man, I’m tired so tired
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Main Point
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Oh, so ya wanna know about The Beast, right?
OK so it first happened in Year 2
though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums
when I was proper little
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
‘The Beast’ is a metaphor for Nate’s anger. Nate describes his anger as ‘The Beast’ as if it is an uncontrollable animal inside him. He has had problems controlling his anger since he was very young.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. 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 show the theme of anger?
B) How does the poet show the importance of good mental health?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
insignificant triggers for anger
Text Mark Evidence summat happened to spark it release it (his anger)…someone nicked my pencil maybe or a push in the line on the way back from assembly
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
Text Mark Evidence from somewhere really deep down in me I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames
physical sensations of anger
Text Mark Evidence - I’m curled up…crying and cold and, man, I’m tired so tired (after the outburst) - the whole room’s in bits…the whole world is - I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand - it (anger outburst) happened again a week later so they got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at school to talk about my issues
consequences of uncontrolled anger
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - they got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at school to talk about my issues - I had to go see this woman every week, Miss Hough, a counsellor to…find a way to keep the beast at bay
the need for support
B) How does the poet show the importance of good mental health?
Text Mark Evidence - two years of talking and drawin and learnin to breathe in a way that let me control that beast - if ya see me startin to breathe in a strange way right (to control my anger), I in’t crazy or nothing
anger-management strategies
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - a way to keep The Beast at bay - a way that let me control that beast, rather than it controlling me - I’m self-regulatin, innit
ability to control emotions
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A therapist
1 spark
B problems and challenges
2 release
C trigger or cause
Check
3 issues
Click if correct
D let out or free
4 counsellor
Find Me
Find the word which shows that Nate feels sympathy and regrets his actions:
...my teacher Miss Nolan’s rubbin my back and
the whole room’s in bits the whole world is.
I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of
some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
Discuss then check
poor
True or False?
Nate is embarrassed about his struggles with his anger and is ashamed to use his anger-management strategies.
True
False
Sequence Me
Put the following events in the correct order:
A) Nate had many temper tantrums when he was young.
B) Nate knows how to self regulate and control his emotions.
C) Nate had an anger outburst in Year 2 and hurt another child.
D) Nate saw a counsellor for two years to learn to control his anger.
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...
play with words.
Reveal
Create your own rhymes or fun combinations of words.
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: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
The Final Year: Poetry 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?
I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
B) How does the poet show the importance of good mental health?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Oh, so ya wanna know about The Beast, right?
OK so it first happened in Year 2 though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums when I was proper little but on this day summat happened to spark it to release it can’t even remember what it was someone nicked my pencil maybe or a push in the line on the way back from assembly.
All I remember is from somewhere really deep down in me I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames and the next thing I know I’m curled up in the Sunshine Room cryin and cold and, man, I’m tired so tired and my teacher Miss Nolan’s rubbin my back and the whole room’s in bits the whole world is.
I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
It happened again a week later so they
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at school to talk about my issues and then I had to go see this woman every week, Miss Hough, a counsellor, to talk and draw and find a way to keep The Beast at bay.
Two years it took us. Two years of talking and drawin and learnin to breathe in a way that let me control that beast, rather than it controllin me.
So if ya see me startin to breathe In a strange way right, I in’t crazy or nothing.
I’m self-regulatin, innit.
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
spark
issues
release
counsellor
keep at bay
self-regulatin
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. 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
spark
Explore
Find Read Talk
OK so it first happened in Year 2 though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums when I was proper little but on this day summat happened to spark it to release it can’t even remember what it was someone nicked my pencil maybe or a push in the line on the way back from assembly.
Reveal Vocabulary
spark
Your turn
release
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
issues
counsellor
keep at bay
self-regulatin
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Oh, so ya wanna know about The Beast, right?
OK so it first happened in Year 2 though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums when I was proper little but on this day summat happened to spark it to release it can’t even remember what it was someone nicked my pencil maybe or a push in the line on the way back from assembly.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
All I remember is from somewhere really deep down in me I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames and the next thing I know I’m curled up in the Sunshine Room cryin and cold and, man, I’m tired so tired and my teacher Miss Nolan’s rubbin my back and the whole room’s in bits the whole world is.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
It happened again a week later so they
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at school to talk about my issues and then I had to go see this woman every week, Miss Hough, a counsellor, to talk and draw and find a way to keep The Beast at bay.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Two years it took us. Two years of talking and drawin and learnin to breathe in a way that let me control that beast, rather than it controllin me.
So if ya see me startin to breathe In a strange way right, I in’t crazy or nothing.
I’m self-regulatin, innit.
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
All I remember is from somewhere really deep down in me I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames and the next thing I know I’m curled up in the Sunshine Room cryin and cold and, man, I’m tired so tired
What did you notice?
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
All I remember is from somewhere really deep down in me
I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness
like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames
and the next thing I know I’m curled up in the Sunshine Room cryin and cold
and, man, I’m tired so tired
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
All I remember is from somewhere really deep down in me I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames and the next thing I know I’m curled up in the Sunshine Room cryin and cold and, man, I’m tired so tired
Explore
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Main Point
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Oh, so ya wanna know about The Beast, right? OK so it first happened in Year 2 though Mum says I was always throwin tantrums when I was proper little
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
‘The Beast’ is a metaphor for Nate’s anger. Nate describes his anger as ‘The Beast’ as if it is an uncontrollable animal inside him. He has had problems controlling his anger since he was very young.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023. 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 show the theme of anger?
B) How does the poet show the importance of good mental health?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
insignificant triggers for anger
Text Mark Evidence summat happened to spark it release it (his anger)…someone nicked my pencil maybe or a push in the line on the way back from assembly
A) How does the poet show the theme of anger?
Text Mark Evidence from somewhere really deep down in me I feel a darkness risin but like a hot darkness like fire and smoke all mixed together and my fists are flames
physical sensations of anger
Text Mark Evidence - I’m curled up…crying and cold and, man, I’m tired so tired (after the outburst) - the whole room’s in bits…the whole world is - I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand - it (anger outburst) happened again a week later so they got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at school to talk about my issues
consequences of uncontrolled anger
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - they got Mum in and she had to come to meetings at school to talk about my issues - I had to go see this woman every week, Miss Hough, a counsellor to…find a way to keep the beast at bay
the need for support
B) How does the poet show the importance of good mental health?
Text Mark Evidence - two years of talking and drawin and learnin to breathe in a way that let me control that beast - if ya see me startin to breathe in a strange way right (to control my anger), I in’t crazy or nothing
anger-management strategies
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - a way to keep The Beast at bay - a way that let me control that beast, rather than it controlling me - I’m self-regulatin, innit
ability to control emotions
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A therapist
1 spark
B problems and challenges
2 release
C trigger or cause
Check
3 issues
Click if correct
D let out or free
4 counsellor
Find Me
Find the word which shows that Nate feels sympathy and regrets his actions:
...my teacher Miss Nolan’s rubbin my back and the whole room’s in bits the whole world is. I’d been carried out of the classroom with a chunk of some poor kid’s ponytail in my hand.
Discuss then check
poor
True or False?
Nate is embarrassed about his struggles with his anger and is ashamed to use his anger-management strategies.
True
False
Sequence Me
Put the following events in the correct order:
A) Nate had many temper tantrums when he was young.
B) Nate knows how to self regulate and control his emotions.
C) Nate had an anger outburst in Year 2 and hurt another child.
D) Nate saw a counsellor for two years to learn to control his anger.
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...
play with words.
Reveal
Create your own rhymes or fun combinations of words.
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: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.