Ready Steady Read Together
The LEGO Ideas Book: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Rainforests are vital to our planet.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match each layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
B) Which two words in the section Rainforest Habitat, mean ‘hot and wet’?
1) emergent
2) canopy
3) understorey
4) forest floor
A) teems with plant life
B) leafy layer below the canopy
C) dense layer of trees that blocks out sunlight
D) formed of really tall trees
C) What could you try to do after you build this rainforest habitat?
D) What could you do to make your waterfall more interesting?
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Let me read today's text
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Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
vital
teems
dense
lush
tiers
convincing cascade
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. 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
vital
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
vital
Your turn
dense
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
teems
lush
tiers
convincing cascade
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Rainforests are vital to our planet. They’re home to more than half of its plant and animal species. Imagine walking through a dark, steamy rainforest. What’s that rustling sound? Who’s that peeping through the leaves?
What did you notice?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Rainforests are vital to our planet.
They’re home to more than half of its plant and animal species.
Imagine walking through a dark, steamy rainforest.
What’s that rustling sound?
Who’s that peeping through the leaves?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Rainforests are vital to our planet. They’re home to more than half of its plant and animal species. Imagine walking through a dark, steamy rainforest. What’s that rustling sound? Who’s that peeping through the leaves?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. 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 layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Rainforest Layers You’ll need four layers: The emergent layer at the top is formed of really tall trees.
A) Match each layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
I will ‘look around’ for the words rainforest and layer. The subheading helps me to find the right section. I can match 1) emergent layer with D) formed by tall trees.
Reveal Explainer
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. 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) Match each layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
B) Which two words in the section Rainforest Habitat, mean ‘hot and wet’?
1) emergent
2) canopy
3) understorey
4) forest floor
A) teems with plant life
B) leafy layer below the canopy
C) dense layer of trees that blocks out sunlight
D) formed of really tall trees
C) What could you try to do after you build this rainforest habitat?
D) What could you do to make your waterfall more interesting?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
1 emergent
D formed of really tall trees
A) What are the four layers of the rainforest?
2 canopy
C dense layer of trees that blocks out sunlight
3 understorey
B leafy layer below the canopy
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
4 forest floor
A teems with plant life
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
steamy
B) Which two words in the section Rainforest Habitat, mean ‘hot and wet’?
tropical
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What could you try to do after you build this rainforest habitat?
Text Mark Evidence Try this!
do your research and build another type of forest
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence build a taller waterfall…with two or even three tiers
make it bigger
D) What could you do to make your waterfall more interesting?
Text Mark Evidence include some animals or minifigure swimmers
add characters
Text Mark Evidence add some secret treasure for explorers to find behind the fall
add hidden fortune
Text Mark Evidence - add plant pieces between layers of rock for a tropical look - (use) green slope for a mossy rock - (use) round tile for churning water - round plates look like worn-away rocks
add special bricks to make it look realistic
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘dense’?
Which One's Right?
Curved slopes can also make a convincing cascade.
Which is closest in meaning to ‘convincing’?
B colourful
A realistic
C churning
D sloped
Tick Me
What is the main purpose of this text?
Tick one
A To learn which animals live in the rainforest.
B To learn the different layers of the rainforest.
Check
C To explain that rainforests are dangerous places.
Click if correct
D To help you to build a LEGO rainforest.
Link Me
Link the Building Brief items with their meaning:
A the goal of the build
1 Objective
B the important details you should include
2 Use
C the optional parts which add more detail
Check
3 Features
Click if correct
D the purpose of the item you are building
4 Extras
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
follow instructions.
Reveal
Use DIY, craft or recipe books to try something new.
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: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
The LEGO Ideas Book: 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?
Rainforests are vital to our planet.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match each layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
B) Which two words in the section Rainforest Habitat, mean ‘hot and wet’?
1) emergent 2) canopy 3) understorey 4) forest floor
A) teems with plant life B) leafy layer below the canopy C) dense layer of trees that blocks out sunlight D) formed of really tall trees
C) What could you try to do after you build this rainforest habitat?
D) What could you do to make your waterfall more interesting?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
vital
teems
dense
lush
tiers
convincing cascade
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. 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
vital
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
vital
Your turn
dense
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
teems
lush
tiers
convincing cascade
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Rainforests are vital to our planet. They’re home to more than half of its plant and animal species. Imagine walking through a dark, steamy rainforest. What’s that rustling sound? Who’s that peeping through the leaves?
What did you notice?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Rainforests are vital to our planet.
They’re home to more than half of its plant and animal species.
Imagine walking through a dark, steamy rainforest.
What’s that rustling sound?
Who’s that peeping through the leaves?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Rainforests are vital to our planet. They’re home to more than half of its plant and animal species. Imagine walking through a dark, steamy rainforest. What’s that rustling sound? Who’s that peeping through the leaves?
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. 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 layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Rainforest Layers You’ll need four layers: The emergent layer at the top is formed of really tall trees.
A) Match each layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
I will ‘look around’ for the words rainforest and layer. The subheading helps me to find the right section. I can match 1) emergent layer with D) formed by tall trees.
Reveal Explainer
From: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022. 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) Match each layer of the rainforest with the correct description?
B) Which two words in the section Rainforest Habitat, mean ‘hot and wet’?
1) emergent 2) canopy 3) understorey 4) forest floor
A) teems with plant life B) leafy layer below the canopy C) dense layer of trees that blocks out sunlight D) formed of really tall trees
C) What could you try to do after you build this rainforest habitat?
D) What could you do to make your waterfall more interesting?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
1 emergent
D formed of really tall trees
A) What are the four layers of the rainforest?
2 canopy
C dense layer of trees that blocks out sunlight
3 understorey
B leafy layer below the canopy
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
4 forest floor
A teems with plant life
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
steamy
B) Which two words in the section Rainforest Habitat, mean ‘hot and wet’?
tropical
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What could you try to do after you build this rainforest habitat?
Text Mark Evidence Try this!
do your research and build another type of forest
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence build a taller waterfall…with two or even three tiers
make it bigger
D) What could you do to make your waterfall more interesting?
Text Mark Evidence include some animals or minifigure swimmers
add characters
Text Mark Evidence add some secret treasure for explorers to find behind the fall
add hidden fortune
Text Mark Evidence - add plant pieces between layers of rock for a tropical look - (use) green slope for a mossy rock - (use) round tile for churning water - round plates look like worn-away rocks
add special bricks to make it look realistic
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘dense’?
Which One's Right?
Curved slopes can also make a convincing cascade.
Which is closest in meaning to ‘convincing’?
B colourful
A realistic
C churning
D sloped
Tick Me
What is the main purpose of this text?
Tick one
A To learn which animals live in the rainforest.
B To learn the different layers of the rainforest.
Check
C To explain that rainforests are dangerous places.
Click if correct
D To help you to build a LEGO rainforest.
Link Me
Link the Building Brief items with their meaning:
A the goal of the build
1 Objective
B the important details you should include
2 Use
C the optional parts which add more detail
Check
3 Features
Click if correct
D the purpose of the item you are building
4 Extras
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
follow instructions.
Reveal
Use DIY, craft or recipe books to try something new.
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: The LEGO Ideas Book by Hannah Dolan, Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March & Catherine Saunders © 2022 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.