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How to Spaghettify Your Dog: Non-Fiction Lesson 3
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?
You’ve just witnessed the three states of matter of water – see how different each one is?
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 happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
B) List three ways you can keep safe when doing this experiment.
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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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invisibly
new lease of life
drifting
vibrate
fixed pattern
witnessed
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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
invisibly
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.
invisibly
Your turn
drifting
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
new lease of life
vibrate
fixed pattern
witnessed
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
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...
With the help of an adult, heat the pan. The cube will melt into liquid. Next, the liquid will start to boil. Watch as it turns into gas. Eventually, there will be nothing left in the pan because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room!
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
With the help of an adult, heat the pan.
The cube will melt into liquid
Next, the liquid will start to boil.
Watch as it turns into gas.
Eventually, there will be nothing left in the pan
because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room!
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
With the help of an adult, heat the pan. The cube will melt into liquid. Next, the liquid will start to boil. Watch as it turns into gas. Eventually, there will be nothing left in the pan because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room!
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: Read Between the Lines
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
2. With the help of an adult, heat the pan. The cube will melt into liquid.
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
I can see that when I heat the ice cubes in a pan, they will melt to form a liquid, water. I will keep looking to find out what will happen next as I keep heating.
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
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
B) List three ways you can keep safe when doing this experiment.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence heat is an energy that gives solids a new lease of life- they vibrate until they break free of their fixed pattern – or in other words, melt
change of state from solid to liquid
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
Text Mark Evidence - liquid will start to boil…watch as it turns into gas - eventually there will be nothing left in the pan because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room - if you keep heating the sloshy liquid atoms, they’ll start to shake and jump wildly until they whizz off into the air – or evaporate- as gas
change of state from liquid to gas
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence the pan and the steam will get very hot and could burn your skin
dangers of heating
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - this experiment must only be done with an adult helping you - do not use the stove without an adult present
work with a grown-up
B) List three ways you can keep safe when doing this experiment.
Text Mark Evidence - the pan and the steam will get very hot and could burn your skin - never touch the pan or the steam
be careful around hot things
Text Mark Evidence always watch from a safe distance
observe from a safe place
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘drifting’?
Find Me
Find the word which means‘to shake or tremble’:
Heat is an energy that gives solids a new lease of life – they vibrate until they break free of their fixed pattern – or in other words, melt!
Discuss then check
vibrate
Which One's Right?
Which is the best match for ‘a new lease of life’?
A slow movement
B a fresh start
D something that has melted
C tiny broken pieces
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) Water will boil and evaporate.
B) Heat several ice cubes in a pan.
C) Ask an adult to work with you.
D) Watch as the ice melts into water.
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...
use a bookmark.
Reveal
Never fold pages - use a fun bookmark instead!
Copyright Notice
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Ready Steady Read Together
How to Spaghettify Your Dog: Non-Fiction 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?
You’ve just witnessed the three states of matter of water – see how different each one is?
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 happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
B) List three ways you can keep safe when doing this experiment.
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!
invisibly
new lease of life
drifting
vibrate
fixed pattern
witnessed
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
invisibly
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.
invisibly
Your turn
drifting
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
new lease of life
vibrate
fixed pattern
witnessed
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...
With the help of an adult, heat the pan. The cube will melt into liquid. Next, the liquid will start to boil. Watch as it turns into gas. Eventually, there will be nothing left in the pan because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room!
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
With the help of an adult, heat the pan.
The cube will melt into liquid
Next, the liquid will start to boil.
Watch as it turns into gas.
Eventually, there will be nothing left in the pan
because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room!
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
With the help of an adult, heat the pan. The cube will melt into liquid. Next, the liquid will start to boil. Watch as it turns into gas. Eventually, there will be nothing left in the pan because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room!
Explore
From: How To Spaghettify Your Dog by Hiba Noor Khan © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
2. With the help of an adult, heat the pan. The cube will melt into liquid.
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
I can see that when I heat the ice cubes in a pan, they will melt to form a liquid, water. I will keep looking to find out what will happen next as I keep heating.
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
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
B) List three ways you can keep safe when doing this experiment.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence heat is an energy that gives solids a new lease of life- they vibrate until they break free of their fixed pattern – or in other words, melt
change of state from solid to liquid
A) What happens to ice cubes when you keep heating them?
Text Mark Evidence - liquid will start to boil…watch as it turns into gas - eventually there will be nothing left in the pan because the gas molecules will be invisibly drifting around the room - if you keep heating the sloshy liquid atoms, they’ll start to shake and jump wildly until they whizz off into the air – or evaporate- as gas
change of state from liquid to gas
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence the pan and the steam will get very hot and could burn your skin
dangers of heating
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - this experiment must only be done with an adult helping you - do not use the stove without an adult present
work with a grown-up
B) List three ways you can keep safe when doing this experiment.
Text Mark Evidence - the pan and the steam will get very hot and could burn your skin - never touch the pan or the steam
be careful around hot things
Text Mark Evidence always watch from a safe distance
observe from a safe place
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘drifting’?
Find Me
Find the word which means‘to shake or tremble’:
Heat is an energy that gives solids a new lease of life – they vibrate until they break free of their fixed pattern – or in other words, melt!
Discuss then check
vibrate
Which One's Right?
Which is the best match for ‘a new lease of life’?
A slow movement
B a fresh start
D something that has melted
C tiny broken pieces
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) Water will boil and evaporate.
B) Heat several ice cubes in a pan.
C) Ask an adult to work with you.
D) Watch as the ice melts into water.
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...
use a bookmark.
Reveal
Never fold pages - use a fun bookmark instead!
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.