Ready Steady Read Together
Atlas of Ocean Adventures: 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?
At first glance, it looks exactly like a piece of floating seaweed. But look closer, and you may see tiny, fluttering fins, a long, tubelike snout, and dark, watchful eyes.
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) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
B) What is the biggest threat to the sea dragon’s survival?
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!
master of camouflage
virtually invisible
ingenious
graceful courtship dance mirroring each other
crucial
monitor
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
master of camouflage
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.
Your turn
master of camouflage
ingenious
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
virtually invisible
crucial
graceful courtship dance mirroring each other
monitor
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...
Although this gentle fish isn’t hunted by other creatures, it is still at risk. As climate change leads to rising ocean temperatures, the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing. These forests provide the dragons with food and shelter, so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature.
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
Although this gentle fish isn’t hunted by other creatures, it is still at risk.
As climate change leads to rising ocean temperatures,
the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing.
These forests provide the dragons with food and shelter,
so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature.
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
Although this gentle fish isn’t hunted by other creatures, it is still at risk. As climate change leads to rising ocean temperatures, the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing. These forests provide the dragons with food and shelter, so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature.
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) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Just like forests on land, underwater kelp forests support a huge variety of life. In the kelp forests of Tasmania lives one of the most hard-to-spot creatures: the weedy sea dragon.
A) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Reveal Explainer
This suggests that the kelp forests provide a suitable habitat for the sea dragon. This means that the sea dragon would find both food and shelter within the kelp forests.
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) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
B) What is the biggest threat to the sea dragon’s survival?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - one of the most hard-to-spot creatures: the weedy sea dragon - the sea dragon is a master of camouflage - at first glance, it looks exactly like a piece of floating seaweed - the sea dragon is covered in leafy body parts, which help it blend in perfectly with the surrounding seaweed - the sea dragon’s disguise is so ingenious that even predators don’t recognise it as a type of food - it (sea dragon) is virtually invisible - leafy frills all over body, for camouflage
able to blend in/hide from predators
A) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - the sea dragon is covered in leafy body parts, which help it blend in perfectly with the surrounding seaweed - it (sea dragon has) a hard covering of bony plates - eyes move independently: one can look forward while the other looks back, to help the sea dragon find prey
special body features
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - these (kelp) forests provide the dragons with food and shelter - clouds of tiny shrimp bloom around the edge of the kelp forest…these are the sea dragon’s favourite food
a good habitat
A) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Text Mark Evidence eyes move independently: one can look forward while the other looks back, to help the sea dragon find prey
able to hunt
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence as climate change leads to rising ocean temperature’s the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing
climate change
B) What is the biggest threat to the sea dragon’s survival?
Text Mark Evidence - the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing - these (kelp) forests provide the dragons with food and shelter, so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature
lack of habitat/loss of kelp forests
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘camouflage’?
Which One's Right?
What does the sea dragon have in common with the blue whale?
A Both creatures use camouflage to hide from predators.
B Both animals eatshrimp-like creatures.
C Both dance tofind a mate.
D Scientists study the patterns both creatures’ stomachs.
Tick Me
Why are the patterns on the sea dragon’s stomach important?
The unique patterns on the sea dragon’s stomach…
Tick two:
A help it to find a mate.
B help scientists track how many are left in the wild.
Check
C help it to catch prey.
Click if correct
D help tell sea dragons apart from each other.
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A nearly or almost
1 ingenious
B matching or copying
2 virtually
C uniquely clever
Check
3 crucial
Click if correct
D essential or necessary
4 mirroring
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
dive intofact books.
Reveal
Read about science, animals, history or any topic you love.
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 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?
At first glance, it looks exactly like a piece of floating seaweed. But look closer, and you may see tiny, fluttering fins, a long, tubelike snout, and dark, watchful eyes.
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) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
B) What is the biggest threat to the sea dragon’s survival?
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!
master of camouflage
virtually invisible
ingenious
graceful courtship dance mirroring each other
crucial
monitor
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
master of camouflage
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.
Your turn
master of camouflage
ingenious
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
virtually invisible
crucial
graceful courtship dance mirroring each other
monitor
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...
Although this gentle fish isn’t hunted by other creatures, it is still at risk. As climate change leads to rising ocean temperatures, the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing. These forests provide the dragons with food and shelter, so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature.
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
Although this gentle fish isn’t hunted by other creatures, it is still at risk.
As climate change leads to rising ocean temperatures,
the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing.
These forests provide the dragons with food and shelter,
so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature.
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
Although this gentle fish isn’t hunted by other creatures, it is still at risk. As climate change leads to rising ocean temperatures, the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing. These forests provide the dragons with food and shelter, so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature.
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) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Just like forests on land, underwater kelp forests support a huge variety of life. In the kelp forests of Tasmania lives one of the most hard-to-spot creatures: the weedy sea dragon.
A) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Reveal Explainer
This suggests that the kelp forests provide a suitable habitat for the sea dragon. This means that the sea dragon would find both food and shelter within the kelp forests.
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) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
B) What is the biggest threat to the sea dragon’s survival?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - one of the most hard-to-spot creatures: the weedy sea dragon - the sea dragon is a master of camouflage - at first glance, it looks exactly like a piece of floating seaweed - the sea dragon is covered in leafy body parts, which help it blend in perfectly with the surrounding seaweed - the sea dragon’s disguise is so ingenious that even predators don’t recognise it as a type of food - it (sea dragon) is virtually invisible - leafy frills all over body, for camouflage
able to blend in/hide from predators
A) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - the sea dragon is covered in leafy body parts, which help it blend in perfectly with the surrounding seaweed - it (sea dragon has) a hard covering of bony plates - eyes move independently: one can look forward while the other looks back, to help the sea dragon find prey
special body features
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - these (kelp) forests provide the dragons with food and shelter - clouds of tiny shrimp bloom around the edge of the kelp forest…these are the sea dragon’s favourite food
a good habitat
A) What helps the sea dragon stay safe and survive in its environment?
Text Mark Evidence eyes move independently: one can look forward while the other looks back, to help the sea dragon find prey
able to hunt
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence as climate change leads to rising ocean temperature’s the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing
climate change
B) What is the biggest threat to the sea dragon’s survival?
Text Mark Evidence - the sea dragon’s kelp forest home is disappearing - these (kelp) forests provide the dragons with food and shelter, so they are crucial to the survival of this incredible creature
lack of habitat/loss of kelp forests
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘camouflage’?
Which One's Right?
What does the sea dragon have in common with the blue whale?
A Both creatures use camouflage to hide from predators.
B Both animals eatshrimp-like creatures.
C Both dance tofind a mate.
D Scientists study the patterns both creatures’ stomachs.
Tick Me
Why are the patterns on the sea dragon’s stomach important? The unique patterns on the sea dragon’s stomach…
Tick two:
A help it to find a mate.
B help scientists track how many are left in the wild.
Check
C help it to catch prey.
Click if correct
D help tell sea dragons apart from each other.
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A nearly or almost
1 ingenious
B matching or copying
2 virtually
C uniquely clever
Check
3 crucial
Click if correct
D essential or necessary
4 mirroring
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
dive intofact books.
Reveal
Read about science, animals, history or any topic you love.
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.