Ready Steady Read Together
A World Full of Poems: Poetry Lesson 4
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?
Each zooabet creature is a part of this world: unique, with its own copyright!
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
B) Which two creatures live underground?
Explore
Let me read today's text
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Zoophabet: Ants to Zorillas
by Avis Harley
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Camels store food in the humps on their backs,
Dragonflies dazzle and dodge,
Elephant trunks furnish watery flings,
Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings,
Hummingbirds hover to drink,
Inchworms advance with a rear-ended loop,
Jellyfish sometimes can sting,
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop, Larks love to warble and sing,
Moles tunnel intricate malls underground,
Newts thrive in ponds filled with weed,
Owls like to swivel their heads right around,
People can learn how to read,
Quetzals are gorgeous in feathery dress,
Rats have acquired a bad label,
Seahorse appears like a figure in chess,
Tortoise found fame in a fable,
Umber-birds thrive in the African wild,
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vipers can poison their prey, Worms turn the soil when the climate is mild,
Xylophage chews wood all day,
Yaks grow in horns that are gracefully curled,
Zorillas are striped black and white;
each zooabet creature is part of this world:
unique, with its own copyright!
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
warble
furnish
advance
thrive
intricate
acquired
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. 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
furnish
Explore
Find Read Talk
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Camels store food in the humps on their backs,
Dragonflies dazzle and dodge,
Elephant trunks furnish watery flings,
Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Reveal Vocabulary
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
furnish
Your turn
warble
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
intricate
thrive
acquired
advance
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Camels store food in the humps on their backs,
Dragonflies dazzle and dodge,
Elephant trunks furnish watery flings,
Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings,
Hummingbirds hover to drink,
Inchworms advance with a rear-ended loop,
Jellyfish sometimes can sting,
Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop,
Larks love to warble and sing,
Moles tunnel intricate malls underground,
Newts thrive in ponds filled with weed,
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Owls like to swivel their heads right around, People can learn how to read,
Quetzals are gorgeous in feathery dress,
Rats have acquired a bad label,
Seahorse appears like a figure in chess,
Tortoise found fame in a fable,
Umber-birds thrive in the African wild,
Vipers can poison their prey,
Worms turn the soil when the climate is mild,
Xylophage chews wood all day,
Yaks grow in horns that are gracefully curled,
Zorillas are striped black and white;
each zooabet creature is part of this world:
unique, with its own copyright!
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Camels store food in the humps on their backs,
Dragonflies dazzle and dodge,
Elephant trunks furnish watery flings,
Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings,
Hummingbirds hover to drink.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Camels store food in the humps on their backs,
Dragonflies dazzle and dodge,
Elephant trunks furnish watery flings,
Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings,
Hummingbirds hover to drink.
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Camels store food in the humps on their backs,
Dragonflies dazzle and dodge,
Elephant trunks furnish watery flings,
Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings,
Hummingbirds hover to drink.
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. 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) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Reveal link statements
A) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
I will ‘look around’ for the word beaver. I know that gnaw means to bite at something and that a lodge is a beaver’s home. I can find and take the answer C) cuts branches to build its home.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: A First Book of Animals by Nicola Davies © 2016. 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) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
B) Which two creatures live underground?
A) stay in one spot in the air to drink nectar
B) can turn its head in all directions
C) cuts branches to build its home
D) dives quickly to get its prey
E) shines brightly and moves quickly
1) beaver
2) dragonfly
3) hummingbird
4) kestrel
5) owl
Find the answers
Text mark
Acceptable Answers
1) beaver
C) cuts branches to build its home
2) dragonfly
E) shines brightly and moves quickly
A) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
3) hummingbird
A) stays in one spot to drink nectar
4) kestrel
D) dives quickly to get its prey
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
5) owl
B) can turn its head in all directions
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence moles tunnel intricate malls underground
moles
B) Which two creatures live underground?
Text Mark Evidence worms turn the soil when the climate is mild
worms
Also accept...
ants
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘thrive’?
Which One's Right?
Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop.
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘swoop’?
A crawl
B dive
D glide
C loop
Tick Me
What does the poet mean when she says rats have acquired a bad label?
Tick one
A Rats like to wear labels.
B Rats try to eat labels found in rubbish.
Check
C Rats are sometimes thought to be dirty pests.
Click if correct
D Rats collect small scraps of paper.
Fill the Gaps
warble
thrive
intricate
Jellyfish sometimes can sting,
Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop,
Larks love to and sing,
Moles tunnel malls underground,
Newts in ponds filled with weed...
Discuss then check
Click if correct
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: A World Full of Poems © 2020 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
warble
intricate
thrive
A) stay in one spot in the air to drink nectar
B) can turn its head in all directions
C) cuts branches to build its home
D) dives quickly to get its prey
E) shines brightly and moves quickly
1) beaver
2) dragonfly
3) hummingbird
4) kestrel
5) owl
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Ready Steady Read Together
A World Full of Poems: Poetry Lesson 4
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?
Each zooabet creature is a part of this world: unique, with its own copyright!
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
B) Which two creatures live underground?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Zoophabet: Ants to Zorillas
by Avis Harley
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks, Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge, Camels store food in the humps on their backs, Dragonflies dazzle and dodge, Elephant trunks furnish watery flings, Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink; Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings, Hummingbirds hover to drink, Inchworms advance with a rear-ended loop, Jellyfish sometimes can sting,
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop, Larks love to warble and sing, Moles tunnel intricate malls underground, Newts thrive in ponds filled with weed, Owls like to swivel their heads right around, People can learn how to read, Quetzals are gorgeous in feathery dress, Rats have acquired a bad label, Seahorse appears like a figure in chess, Tortoise found fame in a fable, Umber-birds thrive in the African wild,
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vipers can poison their prey, Worms turn the soil when the climate is mild, Xylophage chews wood all day, Yaks grow in horns that are gracefully curled, Zorillas are striped black and white; each zooabet creature is part of this world: unique, with its own copyright!
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
warble
furnish
advance
thrive
intricate
acquired
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. 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
furnish
Explore
Find Read Talk
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks, Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge, Camels store food in the humps on their backs, Dragonflies dazzle and dodge, Elephant trunks furnish watery flings, Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Reveal Vocabulary
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
furnish
Your turn
warble
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
intricate
thrive
acquired
advance
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks, Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge, Camels store food in the humps on their backs, Dragonflies dazzle and dodge, Elephant trunks furnish watery flings, Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink; Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings, Hummingbirds hover to drink, Inchworms advance with a rear-ended loop, Jellyfish sometimes can sting, Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop, Larks love to warble and sing, Moles tunnel intricate malls underground, Newts thrive in ponds filled with weed,
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Owls like to swivel their heads right around, People can learn how to read, Quetzals are gorgeous in feathery dress, Rats have acquired a bad label, Seahorse appears like a figure in chess, Tortoise found fame in a fable, Umber-birds thrive in the African wild, Vipers can poison their prey, Worms turn the soil when the climate is mild, Xylophage chews wood all day, Yaks grow in horns that are gracefully curled, Zorillas are striped black and white; each zooabet creature is part of this world: unique, with its own copyright!
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks, Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge, Camels store food in the humps on their backs, Dragonflies dazzle and dodge, Elephant trunks furnish watery flings, Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink; Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings, Hummingbirds hover to drink.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks,
Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Camels store food in the humps on their backs,
Dragonflies dazzle and dodge,
Elephant trunks furnish watery flings,
Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink;
Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings,
Hummingbirds hover to drink.
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks, Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge, Camels store food in the humps on their backs, Dragonflies dazzle and dodge, Elephant trunks furnish watery flings, Flamingoes eat shrimp to keep pink; Grasshoppers’ ears appear under their wings, Hummingbirds hover to drink.
Explore
From: A World Full of Poems © 2020. 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) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Ants use antennae to seek out their tracks, Beavers gnaw trees for their lodge,
Reveal link statements
A) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
I will ‘look around’ for the word beaver. I know that gnaw means to bite at something and that a lodge is a beaver’s home. I can find and take the answer C) cuts branches to build its home.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: A First Book of Animals by Nicola Davies © 2016. 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) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
B) Which two creatures live underground?
A) stay in one spot in the air to drink nectar B) can turn its head in all directions C) cuts branches to build its home D) dives quickly to get its prey E) shines brightly and moves quickly
1) beaver 2) dragonfly 3) hummingbird 4) kestrel 5) owl
Find the answers
Text mark
Acceptable Answers
1) beaver
C) cuts branches to build its home
2) dragonfly
E) shines brightly and moves quickly
A) Link each creature with its action from the poem.
3) hummingbird
A) stays in one spot to drink nectar
4) kestrel
D) dives quickly to get its prey
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
5) owl
B) can turn its head in all directions
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence moles tunnel intricate malls underground
moles
B) Which two creatures live underground?
Text Mark Evidence worms turn the soil when the climate is mild
worms
Also accept...
ants
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘thrive’?
Which One's Right?
Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop.
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘swoop’?
A crawl
B dive
D glide
C loop
Tick Me
What does the poet mean when she says rats have acquired a bad label?
Tick one
A Rats like to wear labels.
B Rats try to eat labels found in rubbish.
Check
C Rats are sometimes thought to be dirty pests.
Click if correct
D Rats collect small scraps of paper.
Fill the Gaps
warble
thrive
intricate
Jellyfish sometimes can sting, Kestrels catch lunch with a lightning-like swoop, Larks love to and sing, Moles tunnel malls underground, Newts in ponds filled with weed...
Discuss then check
Click if correct
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: A World Full of Poems © 2020 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
warble
intricate
thrive
A) stay in one spot in the air to drink nectar B) can turn its head in all directions C) cuts branches to build its home D) dives quickly to get its prey E) shines brightly and moves quickly
1) beaver 2) dragonfly 3) hummingbird 4) kestrel 5) owl