Ready Steady Read Together
Atlas of Ocean Adventures: Non-Fiction Lesson 1
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?
As long as three double-decker buses, with a heart the size of a small car and a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant, the blue whale is the largest creature ever to have existed.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
B) What do we learn about the feeding habits of the blue whale?
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
shrimp-like creature called krill
swarms
grazes
sieve-like filter on the roof of mouth
bloom
chalk up
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. 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
shrimp-like creature called krill
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
shrimp-like creature called krill
Your turn
grazes
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
swarms
bloom
chalk up
sievelike filter on the roof of mouth
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
It travels thousands of kilometres from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles. Here, it grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas. It feeds for three or four months – throughout the polar summer – before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
It travels thousands of kilometres
from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles.
Here, it grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas.
It feeds for three or four months – throughout the polar summer –
before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives.
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
It travels thousands of kilometres from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles. Here, it grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas. It feeds for three or four months – throughout the polar summer – before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives.
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
As long as three double-decker buses, with a heart the size of a small car and a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant, the blue whale is the largest creature ever to have existed.
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
Because most people haven’t seen a blue whale, the author compares it to something familiar - a double-decker bus. These are common in big cities, on TV or in movies. Saying the whale is as long as three buses helps us picture its size.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. 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 author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
B) What do we learn about the feeding habits of the blue whale?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - a heart the size of a small car, a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant - tail the width of a small aircraft
comparisons to familiar things
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
Text Mark Evidence a weight close to 200 tonnes
actual measurements
Text Mark Evidence - a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant - the blue whale is the largest creature ever to have existed - the largest animal on the planet - it’s (blue whale is) twice as heavy as the biggest dinosaur
comparisons to other large creatures
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence this gentle giant
her word choice to stress its size
Practise & Apply
Text Mark Evidence surprisingly, the largest animal on the planet feeds on one of the smallest: a tiny, shrimp-like creature
Acceptable Answers
the unusually small size of its food
Text Mark Evidence - a tiny, shrimp-like creature called krill - it (blue whale) grazes on huge swarms of krill
what it eats
Text Mark Evidence - it (blue whale) travels thousands of kilometres from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles - it (blue whale) grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas
where it eats/the distance it travels to eat
B) What do we learn about feeding habits of the blue whale?
Text Mark Evidence it (blue whale) feeds for three or four months throughout the polar summer before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives
when it eats
Go to the next slide for more....
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence the blue whale manages to gulp down 4 tonnes of krill every day which is about the weight of a hippo
how much it eats
Text Mark Evidence sievelike filter on roof of mouth
how it eats/adaptations to eat krill
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘krill’?
True or False?
The blue whale will eat either 4 tonnes of krill or a hippo in a day .
True
False
Tick Me
Tick the main predators of whales:
Tick two
A packs of orcas
B African elephant
Check
C swarms of krill
Click if correct
D humans
Match Me
Match each word to its correct definition:
3 chalk up
4 filter
1 graze
2 swarm
A snack often
B tally or total
C strain or sieve
D groups or crowds
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...
read every day.
Reveal
Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference!
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: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Atlas of Ocean Adventures: Non-Fiction Lesson 1
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?
As long as three double-decker buses, with a heart the size of a small car and a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant, the blue whale is the largest creature ever to have existed.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
B) What do we learn about the feeding habits of the blue whale?
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
shrimp-like creature called krill
swarms
grazes
sieve-like filter on the roof of mouth
bloom
chalk up
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. 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
shrimp-like creature called krill
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
shrimp-like creature called krill
Your turn
grazes
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
swarms
bloom
chalk up
sievelike filter on the roof of mouth
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
It travels thousands of kilometres from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles. Here, it grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas. It feeds for three or four months – throughout the polar summer – before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
It travels thousands of kilometres
from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles.
Here, it grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas.
It feeds for three or four months – throughout the polar summer –
before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives.
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
It travels thousands of kilometres from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles. Here, it grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas. It feeds for three or four months – throughout the polar summer – before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives.
Explore
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
As long as three double-decker buses, with a heart the size of a small car and a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant, the blue whale is the largest creature ever to have existed.
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
Because most people haven’t seen a blue whale, the author compares it to something familiar - a double-decker bus. These are common in big cities, on TV or in movies. Saying the whale is as long as three buses helps us picture its size.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019. 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 author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
B) What do we learn about the feeding habits of the blue whale?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - a heart the size of a small car, a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant - tail the width of a small aircraft
comparisons to familiar things
A) How does the author help us to understand how incredibly large the blue whale truly is?
Text Mark Evidence a weight close to 200 tonnes
actual measurements
Text Mark Evidence - a tongue weighing as much as an African elephant - the blue whale is the largest creature ever to have existed - the largest animal on the planet - it’s (blue whale is) twice as heavy as the biggest dinosaur
comparisons to other large creatures
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence this gentle giant
her word choice to stress its size
Practise & Apply
Text Mark Evidence surprisingly, the largest animal on the planet feeds on one of the smallest: a tiny, shrimp-like creature
Acceptable Answers
the unusually small size of its food
Text Mark Evidence - a tiny, shrimp-like creature called krill - it (blue whale) grazes on huge swarms of krill
what it eats
Text Mark Evidence - it (blue whale) travels thousands of kilometres from its breeding waters close to the Equator to its feeding grounds near the poles - it (blue whale) grazes on huge swarms of krill, which bloom in these icy seas
where it eats/the distance it travels to eat
B) What do we learn about feeding habits of the blue whale?
Text Mark Evidence it (blue whale) feeds for three or four months throughout the polar summer before heading back towards the tropics as winter arrives
when it eats
Go to the next slide for more....
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence the blue whale manages to gulp down 4 tonnes of krill every day which is about the weight of a hippo
how much it eats
Text Mark Evidence sievelike filter on roof of mouth
how it eats/adaptations to eat krill
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘krill’?
True or False?
The blue whale will eat either 4 tonnes of krill or a hippo in a day .
True
False
Tick Me
Tick the main predators of whales:
Tick two
A packs of orcas
B African elephant
Check
C swarms of krill
Click if correct
D humans
Match Me
Match each word to its correct definition:
3 chalk up
4 filter
1 graze
2 swarm
A snack often
B tally or total
C strain or sieve
D groups or crowds
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...
read every day.
Reveal
Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference!
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: Atlas of Ocean Adventures by Emily Hawkins © 2019 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.