Ready Steady Read Together
Atlas of Ocean Adventures: Non-Fiction 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?
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters.
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)
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
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!
patrolling
navigate
cunning character
captive
smokescreen
evade
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
patrolling
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.
patrolling
Your turn
cunning character
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
navigate
captive
smokescreen
evade
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...
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters. They have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks. If threatened, an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away. As well as making a smokescreen, the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell. As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm.
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
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters.
They have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks.
If threatened, an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away.
As well as making a smokescreen, the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell.
As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm.
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
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters. They have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks. If threatened, an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away. As well as making a smokescreen, the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell. As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm.
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
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
It doesn’t have a hard shell or sharp teeth to protect itself; instead, it relies on some ingenious survival tricks. The octopus is a king of camouflage.
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
This suggests that an octopus has to be very clever to stay alive because it doesn’t have the usual body parts other animals use for protection. Instead, the octopus is very good at hiding from predators by blending in with its surroundings.
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
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - special cells in its skin allow it to change colour in an instant to match its surroundings, mimicking shells, rocks or plants - this quick-thinking creature can even put on a disguise, grabbing nearby shells to cover itself up, making a protective armour to confuse predators
able to blend in/hide from predators
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Text Mark Evidence if…an octopus is seized by a shark, it won’t give up without a fight…it forces its arms into the shark’s gills to stop it from breathing
able to defend itself
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - when the shark lets go, this cunning creature can make a quick getaway - their amazing abilities to navigate through mazes - they (octopuses) can squeeze through impossibly small cracks - captive octopuses often escape from their tanks
able to escape quickly if captured
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - they (octopuses) have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks - an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away - the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell - an octopus can even shed an arm…so the octopus can swim to safety
special body features
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Text Mark Evidence some octopuses also use shells to build defences around their homes
create a safe home
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘captive’?
Match Me
Match each word with its correct definition:
3 navigate
4 captive
1 patrol
2 cunning
A captured or caged
B crafty or sly
C watch or guard
D steer or guide
Click if correct
Check
Find Me
Find one word which means‘to escape or avoid’:
As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm. This distracts the enemy so the octopus can swim to safety. Just like a starfish, it will later regrow its limb.
Discuss then check
evade
Link Me
Link each body part of an octopus with its use:
A can be shed and will regrow
1 skin
B changes colourto blend in
2 limb
C hold onto rocks or catch food
Check
3 sensors
Click if correct
D find food or sense danger
4 suckers
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
keep a book journal.
Reveal
Write about what you've read or sketch your favourite scenes.
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 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?
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters.
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)
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
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!
patrolling
navigate
cunning character
captive
smokescreen
evade
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
patrolling
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.
patrolling
Your turn
cunning character
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
navigate
captive
smokescreen
evade
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...
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters. They have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks. If threatened, an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away. As well as making a smokescreen, the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell. As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm.
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
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters.
They have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks.
If threatened, an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away.
As well as making a smokescreen, the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell.
As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm.
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
Octopuses are incredible shape-shifters. They have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks. If threatened, an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away. As well as making a smokescreen, the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell. As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm.
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
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
It doesn’t have a hard shell or sharp teeth to protect itself; instead, it relies on some ingenious survival tricks. The octopus is a king of camouflage.
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
This suggests that an octopus has to be very clever to stay alive because it doesn’t have the usual body parts other animals use for protection. Instead, the octopus is very good at hiding from predators by blending in with its surroundings.
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
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - special cells in its skin allow it to change colour in an instant to match its surroundings, mimicking shells, rocks or plants - this quick-thinking creature can even put on a disguise, grabbing nearby shells to cover itself up, making a protective armour to confuse predators
able to blend in/hide from predators
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Text Mark Evidence if…an octopus is seized by a shark, it won’t give up without a fight…it forces its arms into the shark’s gills to stop it from breathing
able to defend itself
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - when the shark lets go, this cunning creature can make a quick getaway - their amazing abilities to navigate through mazes - they (octopuses) can squeeze through impossibly small cracks - captive octopuses often escape from their tanks
able to escape quickly if captured
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - they (octopuses) have no bones, so they can squeeze through impossibly small cracks - an octopus can release a puff of ink, clouding the water so it can slip away - the ink dulls the hunter’s sense of smell - an octopus can even shed an arm…so the octopus can swim to safety
special body features
What helps the octopus stay safe and survive in its environment?
Text Mark Evidence some octopuses also use shells to build defences around their homes
create a safe home
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘captive’?
Match Me
Match each word with its correct definition:
3 navigate
4 captive
1 patrol
2 cunning
A captured or caged
B crafty or sly
C watch or guard
D steer or guide
Click if correct
Check
Find Me
Find one word which means‘to escape or avoid’:
As a last resort to evade a hunter, an octopus can even shed an arm. This distracts the enemy so the octopus can swim to safety. Just like a starfish, it will later regrow its limb.
Discuss then check
evade
Link Me
Link each body part of an octopus with its use:
A can be shed and will regrow
1 skin
B changes colourto blend in
2 limb
C hold onto rocks or catch food
Check
3 sensors
Click if correct
D find food or sense danger
4 suckers
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
keep a book journal.
Reveal
Write about what you've read or sketch your favourite scenes.
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.