Ready Steady Read Together
How to Spaghettify Your Dog: 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?
The impossible has happened!
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
B) Put the experiment steps in the correct order.
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Let me read today's text
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Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
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peeled, hard boiled egg
alight
neck
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air molecules
air pressure
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From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 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
peeled, hard-boiled egg
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Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
peeled, hard-boiled egg
Your turn
neck
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
alight
expand
air molecules
air pressure
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
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Reveal Vocabulary
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Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
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Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
As soon as the newspaper is in, sit the peeled egg (pointy side down) on the neck of the bottle and stand back to watch the magic! Your egg will squeeeeeze itself down the neck of the bottle before plopping inside! The impossible has happened!
What did you notice?
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
As soon as the newspaper is in,
sit the peeled egg (pointy side down)
on the neck of the bottle
and stand back to watch the magic!
Your egg will squeeeeeze itself
down the neck of the bottle
before plopping inside!
The impossible has happened!
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
As soon as the newspaper is in, sit the peeled egg (pointy side down) on the neck of the bottle and stand back to watch the magic! Your egg will squeeeeeze itself down the neck of the bottle before plopping inside! The impossible has happened!
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. 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) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Health & Safety Warning: This experiment must only be done with an adult helping you.
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
I will ‘look around’ for the word safe. I can ‘find and take’ the answer that tells me I shouldn’t do this experiment without an adult helping. I will look around the whole text to find all the other answers.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 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
B) Put the experiment steps in the correct order.
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
A) Stand back and watch the egg squeeze through.B) Put the egg on top of the bottle neck. C) Gather all the items you will need. D) An adult lights a small strip of newspaper.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - matches can be very dangerous and should not be used by children - never light the paper yourself – always let an adult do this part - ask an adult to set a small strip of newspaper alight
only adults use matches
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
Text Mark Evidence stand back (from the fire) to watch the magic
stay a safe distance from fire
Text Mark Evidence Be careful with the glass bottle as it could break if dropped
use care with glass bottle
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Gather all the items you will need.
B) Put the experiment steps in the correct order.
D) An adult lights a small strip of newspaper.
B) Put the egg on top of the bottle neck.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
A) Stand back and watch the egg squeeze through.
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘air pressure’?
Which One's Right?
2. Ask an adult to set a small strip of newspaper alight and put it inside the glass bottle.
Which is the closest in meaning to the word alight?
B melting
A squeezing
D freezing
C burning
Tick Me
Tick the answer which best completes the sentence.
The neck of the bottle should be…
Tick one
A very wide so the egg falls right through.
B very long to make a WHOOSH noise.
Check
C very narrow so the egg won’t sit on the top.
Click if correct
D just wide enough for the egg to sit on.
Fill the Gaps
pressure
molecules
expand
The flames heat up and the air inside the bottle, sending air WHOOSHING out of it. When you put the egg on top, the fire goes out and the bottle cools. Now there are fewer air molecules inside the bottle, and so the air in there goes down.
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...
look for keywords.
Reveal
Notice bold or highlighted words to understand main ideas.
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: How to Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
How to Spaghettify Your Dog: 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?
The impossible has happened!
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
B) Put the experiment steps in the correct order.
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
peeled, hard boiled egg
alight
neck
expand
air molecules
air pressure
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 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
peeled, hard-boiled egg
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
peeled, hard-boiled egg
Your turn
neck
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
alight
expand
air molecules
air pressure
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
As soon as the newspaper is in, sit the peeled egg (pointy side down) on the neck of the bottle and stand back to watch the magic! Your egg will squeeeeeze itself down the neck of the bottle before plopping inside! The impossible has happened!
What did you notice?
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
As soon as the newspaper is in,
sit the peeled egg (pointy side down)
on the neck of the bottle
and stand back to watch the magic!
Your egg will squeeeeeze itself
down the neck of the bottle
before plopping inside!
The impossible has happened!
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
As soon as the newspaper is in, sit the peeled egg (pointy side down) on the neck of the bottle and stand back to watch the magic! Your egg will squeeeeeze itself down the neck of the bottle before plopping inside! The impossible has happened!
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. 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) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Health & Safety Warning: This experiment must only be done with an adult helping you.
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
I will ‘look around’ for the word safe. I can ‘find and take’ the answer that tells me I shouldn’t do this experiment without an adult helping. I will look around the whole text to find all the other answers.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 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
B) Put the experiment steps in the correct order.
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
A) Stand back and watch the egg squeeze through.B) Put the egg on top of the bottle neck. C) Gather all the items you will need. D) An adult lights a small strip of newspaper.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - matches can be very dangerous and should not be used by children - never light the paper yourself – always let an adult do this part - ask an adult to set a small strip of newspaper alight
only adults use matches
A) What are some tips to stay safe when conducting this experiment?
Text Mark Evidence stand back (from the fire) to watch the magic
stay a safe distance from fire
Text Mark Evidence Be careful with the glass bottle as it could break if dropped
use care with glass bottle
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Gather all the items you will need.
B) Put the experiment steps in the correct order.
D) An adult lights a small strip of newspaper.
B) Put the egg on top of the bottle neck.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
A) Stand back and watch the egg squeeze through.
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘air pressure’?
Which One's Right?
2. Ask an adult to set a small strip of newspaper alight and put it inside the glass bottle.
Which is the closest in meaning to the word alight?
B melting
A squeezing
D freezing
C burning
Tick Me
Tick the answer which best completes the sentence. The neck of the bottle should be…
Tick one
A very wide so the egg falls right through.
B very long to make a WHOOSH noise.
Check
C very narrow so the egg won’t sit on the top.
Click if correct
D just wide enough for the egg to sit on.
Fill the Gaps
pressure
molecules
expand
The flames heat up and the air inside the bottle, sending air WHOOSHING out of it. When you put the egg on top, the fire goes out and the bottle cools. Now there are fewer air molecules inside the bottle, and so the air in there goes down.
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...
look for keywords.
Reveal
Notice bold or highlighted words to understand main ideas.
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: How to Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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molecules
pressure