Ready Steady Read Together
My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Things: 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?
These brain boxes are just some of the clever inventors whose ideas helped change our world.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
B) Which of these inventions help us read this book today in class?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
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people
would
even
improve
plant
move
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
master
new and improved
discoveries
powered
took to the skies
communicate
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. 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
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
master
Your turn
discoveries
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
new and improved
took to the skies
powered
communicate
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Thomas Edison’s brightest idea was to create a new and improved light bulb. If it wasn’t for his work, you might be reading this book by candlelight! Edison invented thousands of things during his lifetime.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Thomas Edison’s brightest idea was to create a new and improved light bulb.
If it wasn’t for his work,
you might be reading this book by candlelight!
Edison invented thousands of things during his lifetime.
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Thomas Edison’s brightest idea was to create a new and improved light bulb. If it wasn’t for his work, you might be reading this book by candlelight! Edison invented thousands of things during his lifetime.
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. 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) Match each inventor with their invention.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Before Cai Lun invented paper, people had to make do with writing and drawing on cave walls, silk, or even bone!
Cai Lun used squashed up plants to make paper.
Reveal inventors & inventions
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
The first inventor is Cai Lun. I’ll ‘look around’ for Cai Lun. I can ‘find and take’ the answer. Cai Lun used squashed plants to make paper. Now, you ‘look around’ for the next inventor.
Reveal Explainer
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
B) Which of these inventions help us read this book today in class?
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
1) Cai Lun
2) Johannes Gutenberg
3) Michael Faraday
4) Thomas Edison
5) Orville and Wilbur Wright
6) Tim Berners-Lee
A) the first electric motor
B) the World Wide Web
C) the printing press
D) an improved light bulb
E) paper
F) the first powered aeroplane
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
1) Cai Lun
E) paper
2) Johannes Gutenberg
C) the printing press
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
3) Michael Faraday
A) the first electric motor
4) Thomas Edison
D) an improved light bulb
5) Orville and Wilbur Wright
F) the fiirst powered aeroplane
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
6) Tim Berners-Lee
B) the World Wide Web
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence before Cai Lun invented paper, people had to make do with writing and drawing on cave walks, silk, or even bone
the pages of the book are made of paper
B) Which of these inventions help us read this book today in class?
Text Mark Evidence - without Johannes Gutenberg, you would not be reading this book - his printing press allowed people to share their ideas and stories
the book was printed on a printing press
Text Mark Evidence if it wasn’t for his (Thomas Edison’s) work, you might be reading this book by candlelight
you might have lights on to read the book
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘took to the skies’?
Which One's Right?
Michael Faraday was a master of electricity.
The word master means he was…
B scared of it
A interested in it
D confused by it
C very good at it
Link Me
Link each invention with the problem it solved.
A People had to read by candlelight.
1 paper
B People had to write or draw on walls.
Check
2 printing press
C Computers couldn’t communicate with other computers.
Click if correct
3 improved light bulb
D People couldn’t share their stories easily.
4 World Wide Web
Tick Me
What did people us for writing before paper was invented?
Tick one
A cave walls
B silk
Check
C bone
Click if correct
D all of the above
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 accessiblity from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
1) Cai Lun
2) Johannes Gutenberg
3) Michael Faraday
4) Thomas Edison
5) Orville and Wilbur Wright
6) Tim Berners-Lee
A) the first electric motor
B) the World Wide Web
C) the printing press
D) an improved light bulb
E) paper
F) the first powered aeroplane
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Ready Steady Read Together
My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Things: 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?
These brain boxes are just some of the clever inventors whose ideas helped change our world.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
B) Which of these inventions help us read this book today in class?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
people
would
even
improve
plant
move
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
master
new and improved
discoveries
powered
took to the skies
communicate
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. 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
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
master
Your turn
discoveries
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
new and improved
took to the skies
powered
communicate
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Thomas Edison’s brightest idea was to create a new and improved light bulb. If it wasn’t for his work, you might be reading this book by candlelight! Edison invented thousands of things during his lifetime.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Thomas Edison’s brightest idea was to create a new and improved light bulb.
If it wasn’t for his work,
you might be reading this book by candlelight!
Edison invented thousands of things during his lifetime.
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Thomas Edison’s brightest idea was to create a new and improved light bulb. If it wasn’t for his work, you might be reading this book by candlelight! Edison invented thousands of things during his lifetime.
Explore
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. 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) Match each inventor with their invention.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Before Cai Lun invented paper, people had to make do with writing and drawing on cave walls, silk, or even bone! Cai Lun used squashed up plants to make paper.
Reveal inventors & inventions
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
The first inventor is Cai Lun. I’ll ‘look around’ for Cai Lun. I can ‘find and take’ the answer. Cai Lun used squashed plants to make paper. Now, you ‘look around’ for the next inventor.
Reveal Explainer
From: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
B) Which of these inventions help us read this book today in class?
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
1) Cai Lun 2) Johannes Gutenberg 3) Michael Faraday 4) Thomas Edison 5) Orville and Wilbur Wright 6) Tim Berners-Lee
A) the first electric motor B) the World Wide Web C) the printing press D) an improved light bulb E) paper F) the first powered aeroplane
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
1) Cai Lun
E) paper
2) Johannes Gutenberg
C) the printing press
A) Match each inventor with their invention.
3) Michael Faraday
A) the first electric motor
4) Thomas Edison
D) an improved light bulb
5) Orville and Wilbur Wright
F) the fiirst powered aeroplane
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
6) Tim Berners-Lee
B) the World Wide Web
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence before Cai Lun invented paper, people had to make do with writing and drawing on cave walks, silk, or even bone
the pages of the book are made of paper
B) Which of these inventions help us read this book today in class?
Text Mark Evidence - without Johannes Gutenberg, you would not be reading this book - his printing press allowed people to share their ideas and stories
the book was printed on a printing press
Text Mark Evidence if it wasn’t for his (Thomas Edison’s) work, you might be reading this book by candlelight
you might have lights on to read the book
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘took to the skies’?
Which One's Right?
Michael Faraday was a master of electricity.
The word master means he was…
B scared of it
A interested in it
D confused by it
C very good at it
Link Me
Link each invention with the problem it solved.
A People had to read by candlelight.
1 paper
B People had to write or draw on walls.
Check
2 printing press
C Computers couldn’t communicate with other computers.
Click if correct
3 improved light bulb
D People couldn’t share their stories easily.
4 World Wide Web
Tick Me
What did people us for writing before paper was invented?
Tick one
A cave walls
B silk
Check
C bone
Click if correct
D all of the above
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 accessiblity from: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things by DK © 2016 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
1) Cai Lun 2) Johannes Gutenberg 3) Michael Faraday 4) Thomas Edison 5) Orville and Wilbur Wright 6) Tim Berners-Lee
A) the first electric motor B) the World Wide Web C) the printing press D) an improved light bulb E) paper F) the first powered aeroplane