Ready Steady Read Together
Midnight Feasts: Poetry 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?
It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat – there’s really hardly anything that all of them will eat.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Which statements are true and which are false?
B) Which strange foods are put together in the poem?
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Let me read today's text
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Crisps with Custard
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast.
Jenny likes rice pudding but only on toast.
Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnips or swede
but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
Jenny quite likes pasta, but only if it’s tube-shaped.
Bill refuses bacon, unless it’s on a blue plate.
Daddy likes a lemon cake, especially if it’s fried,
and loves potato skin, but not the potato inside.
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Mum eats mash with marmalade, Jen likes chocolate ham. Dad pours gravy on ice cream, then spreads his beef with jam.
Mum says, ‘Eat your fruit up, Bill,’ but Bill says, ‘Don’t you see
I simply won’t eat anything that once grew on a tree!’
It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat –
there’s really hardly anything that all of them will eat.
So every night they gobble up the only thing that works –
a plate of crisps with custard, then a radish for dessert.
Jude Simpson
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
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only
every
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Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
casserole
tube-shaped
swede
marmalade
feat
gobble
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From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 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
casserole
Explore
Find Read Talk
Crisps with Custard
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast.
Jenny likes rice pudding but only on toast.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
casserole
Your turn
swede
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
tube-shaped
marmalade
feat
gobble
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Crisps with Custard
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast.
Jenny likes rice pudding but only on toast.
Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnips or swede
but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
Jenny quite likes pasta, but only if it’s tube-shaped.
Bill refuses bacon, unless it’s on a blue plate.
Daddy likes a lemon cake, especially if it’s fried,
and loves potato skin, but not the potato inside.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Mum eats mash with marmalade, Jen likes chocolate ham. Dad pours gravy on ice cream, then spreads his beef with jam.
Mum says, ‘Eat your fruit up, Bill,’ but Bill says, ‘Don’t you see
I simply won’t eat anything that once grew on a tree!’
It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat –
there’s really hardly anything that all of them will eat.
So every night they gobble up the only thing that works –
a plate of crisps with custard, then a radish for dessert.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast.
Jenny likes rice pudding but only on a toast.
Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnip or Swede
but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast.
Jenny likes rice pudding but only on a toast.
Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnip or Swede
but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast.
Jenny likes rice pudding but only on a toast.
Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnip or Swede
but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. 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) Which statements are true and which are false?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Dad pours gravy on ice cream, then spreads his beef with jam.
Mum says, ‘Eat your fruit up, Bill,’ but Bill says, ‘Don’t you see
I simply won’t eat anything that once grew on a tree!’
Reveal True or False Statements
A) Which statements are true and which are false?
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the key phrase ‘grows on trees’ I can see that it is in the fourth line of the third verse. It says that he ‘won't eat anything that once grew on a tree’. This statement is false.
Teach
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 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) Which statements are true and which are false?
Find the answers
Text mark
B) Which strange foods are put together in the poem? Tick two.
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
A) Which statements are true and which are false?
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Which strange foods are put together in the poem?
Check
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘marmalade’?
Which One's Right?
So every night they gobble up the only thing that works –
The word gobble tells us the family…
B) cook very carefully
A) share theirfood slowly
D) throw theirfood away
C) eat very quickly
Tick Me
It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat –
Tick the statement that is closest in meaning to “feat”:
Tick one:
A) Something easy that anyone can do
B) A type of food cooked in the oven
Check
C) Something difficult that takes effort
Click if correct
D) A mistake someone makes
Sequence Me
Put the following statements in the correct order.
A) They have a radish at the end.
B) The family is very fussy about food.
C) There is hardly anything they will all eat.
D) They gobble up crisps with custard.
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...
notice the sounds.
Reveal
Listen for rhymes, alliteration and other sound effects.
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 from: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
Midnight Feasts: Poetry 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?
It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat – there’s really hardly anything that all of them will eat.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Which statements are true and which are false?
B) Which strange foods are put together in the poem?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Crisps with Custard
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast. Jenny likes rice pudding but only on toast. Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnips or swede but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese. Jenny quite likes pasta, but only if it’s tube-shaped. Bill refuses bacon, unless it’s on a blue plate. Daddy likes a lemon cake, especially if it’s fried, and loves potato skin, but not the potato inside.
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Mum eats mash with marmalade, Jen likes chocolate ham. Dad pours gravy on ice cream, then spreads his beef with jam. Mum says, ‘Eat your fruit up, Bill,’ but Bill says, ‘Don’t you see I simply won’t eat anything that once grew on a tree!’ It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat – there’s really hardly anything that all of them will eat. So every night they gobble up the only thing that works – a plate of crisps with custard, then a radish for dessert.
Jude Simpson
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
only
every
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
casserole
tube-shaped
swede
marmalade
feat
gobble
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 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
casserole
Explore
Find Read Talk
Crisps with Custard
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast. Jenny likes rice pudding but only on toast.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
casserole
Your turn
swede
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
tube-shaped
marmalade
feat
gobble
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Crisps with Custard
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast. Jenny likes rice pudding but only on toast. Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnips or swede but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese. Jenny quite likes pasta, but only if it’s tube-shaped. Bill refuses bacon, unless it’s on a blue plate. Daddy likes a lemon cake, especially if it’s fried, and loves potato skin, but not the potato inside.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Mum eats mash with marmalade, Jen likes chocolate ham. Dad pours gravy on ice cream, then spreads his beef with jam. Mum says, ‘Eat your fruit up, Bill,’ but Bill says, ‘Don’t you see I simply won’t eat anything that once grew on a tree!’ It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat – there’s really hardly anything that all of them will eat. So every night they gobble up the only thing that works – a plate of crisps with custard, then a radish for dessert.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast. Jenny likes rice pudding but only on a toast. Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnip or Swede but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast.
Jenny likes rice pudding but only on a toast.
Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnip or Swede
but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Daddy likes a casserole, mum prefers a roast. Jenny likes rice pudding but only on a toast. Bill won’t eat tomatoes or turnip or Swede but loves a bowl of cornflakes if it’s topped with lots of cheese.
Explore
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019. 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) Which statements are true and which are false?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Dad pours gravy on ice cream, then spreads his beef with jam. Mum says, ‘Eat your fruit up, Bill,’ but Bill says, ‘Don’t you see I simply won’t eat anything that once grew on a tree!’
Reveal True or False Statements
A) Which statements are true and which are false?
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the key phrase ‘grows on trees’ I can see that it is in the fourth line of the third verse. It says that he ‘won't eat anything that once grew on a tree’. This statement is false.
Teach
From: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 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) Which statements are true and which are false?
Find the answers
Text mark
B) Which strange foods are put together in the poem? Tick two.
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
A) Which statements are true and which are false?
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Which strange foods are put together in the poem?
Check
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘marmalade’?
Which One's Right?
So every night they gobble up the only thing that works – The word gobble tells us the family…
B) cook very carefully
A) share theirfood slowly
D) throw theirfood away
C) eat very quickly
Tick Me
It’s such a fussy family that cooking is a feat – Tick the statement that is closest in meaning to “feat”:
Tick one:
A) Something easy that anyone can do
B) A type of food cooked in the oven
Check
C) Something difficult that takes effort
Click if correct
D) A mistake someone makes
Sequence Me
Put the following statements in the correct order.
A) They have a radish at the end.
B) The family is very fussy about food.
C) There is hardly anything they will all eat.
D) They gobble up crisps with custard.
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...
notice the sounds.
Reveal
Listen for rhymes, alliteration and other sound effects.
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 from: Midnight Feasts chosen by A.F. Harrold © 2019 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.