Ready Steady Read Together
Wild Magic: 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?
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat are the names of the twins?
A) What does the twins’ dad do for work?
B) What special powers do Ziggy and Misha have?
C) How old were the twins when they got their special powers?
D) Why did Grandma Yinka tell the twins to keep their powers a secret?
Explore
Let me read today's text
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This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa. Their mum doesn’t live with them anymore. They live with their dad. He works as a wildlife TV presenter. He travels the world and films many different kinds of animals.
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
The twins had special powers that they had inherited from their mum when they turned six years old. Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts. It was better to be safe than sorry.
One day, just after their eighth birthday, the twins came home and Mum had vanished. They found the shedded skin of a chameleon on their Mum’s favourite chair and knew she had left to live in her animal form. But they tried not to miss her too much because they still had their dad, and he was the best.
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
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could
both
because
wild
many
people
kinds
after
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
wildlife TV presenter
shapeshift
inherited
animal form
vanished
shedded skin of a chameleon
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. 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
wildlife TV presenter
Explore
Find Read Talk
This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa. Their mum doesn’t live with them anymore. They live with their dad. He works as a wildlife TV presenter. He travels the world and films many different kinds of animals.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
wildlife TV presenter
inherited
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
shapeshift
vanished
shedded skin of a chameleon
animal form
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa. Their mum doesn’t live with them anymore. They live with their dad. He works as a wildlife TV presenter. He travels the world and films many different kinds of animals.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
The twins had special powers that they had inherited from their mum when they turned six years old. Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts. It was better to be safe than sorry.
One day, just after their eighth birthday, the twins came home and Mum had vanished. They found the shedded skin of a chameleon on their Mum’s favourite chair and knew she had left to live in her animal form. But they tried not to miss her too much because they still had their dad, and he was the best.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them.
The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s.
Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret
because when their mum was a teenager,
people from the Nigerian village she grew up in
were scared of her when they found out about her gifts.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. 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...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat are the names of the twins?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa.
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat are the names of the twins?
Reveal Explainer
The children in the story are named Misha and Ziggy. They are twins.
Teach
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. 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 does the twins’ dad do for work?
B) What special powers do Ziggy and Misha have?
C) How old were the twins when they got their special powers?
D) Why did Grandma Yinka tell the twins to keep their powers a secret?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a wildlife TV presenter
A) What does the twins’ dad do for work?
Text Mark Evidence he travels the world and films many different kinds of animals
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Misha could talk to animals
B) What special powers do Ziggy and Misha have?
Text Mark Evidence Ziggy could shapeshift into them (animals)
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) How old were the twins when they got their special powers?
Text Mark Evidence six years old
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) Why did Grandma Yinka tell the twins to keep their powers a secret?
Text Mark Evidence people from the Nigerian village she (mum) grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘shapeshift’?
Find Me
Find the animal form that their mum chose:
One day, just after their eighth birthday, the twins came home and Mum had vanished. They found the shedded skin of a chameleon on their Mum’s favourite chair and knew she had left to live in her animal form.
Discuss then check
chameleon
True or False?
Misha and Ziggy were both eight years old when their mother left.
False
True
Tick Me
Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts. It was better to be safe than sorry.
What does Grandma Yinka mean that ‘it was better to be safe than sorry’?
Tick one:
A) Grandma Yinka was sorry their mum had left.
B) Keeping the powers secret was not important.
Check
C) Hiding the powers helps protect the twins.
Click if correct
D) They should say sorry to their dad for lying.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
share a story.
Reveal
Read your favourite fiction book aloud to a friend or family member.
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: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Wild Magic: 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?
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat are the names of the twins?
A) What does the twins’ dad do for work?
B) What special powers do Ziggy and Misha have?
C) How old were the twins when they got their special powers?
D) Why did Grandma Yinka tell the twins to keep their powers a secret?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa. Their mum doesn’t live with them anymore. They live with their dad. He works as a wildlife TV presenter. He travels the world and films many different kinds of animals.
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
The twins had special powers that they had inherited from their mum when they turned six years old. Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts. It was better to be safe than sorry. One day, just after their eighth birthday, the twins came home and Mum had vanished. They found the shedded skin of a chameleon on their Mum’s favourite chair and knew she had left to live in her animal form. But they tried not to miss her too much because they still had their dad, and he was the best.
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
could
both
because
wild
many
people
kinds
after
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
wildlife TV presenter
shapeshift
inherited
animal form
vanished
shedded skin of a chameleon
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. 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
wildlife TV presenter
Explore
Find Read Talk
This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa. Their mum doesn’t live with them anymore. They live with their dad. He works as a wildlife TV presenter. He travels the world and films many different kinds of animals.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
wildlife TV presenter
inherited
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
shapeshift
vanished
shedded skin of a chameleon
animal form
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa. Their mum doesn’t live with them anymore. They live with their dad. He works as a wildlife TV presenter. He travels the world and films many different kinds of animals.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
The twins had special powers that they had inherited from their mum when they turned six years old. Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts. It was better to be safe than sorry. One day, just after their eighth birthday, the twins came home and Mum had vanished. They found the shedded skin of a chameleon on their Mum’s favourite chair and knew she had left to live in her animal form. But they tried not to miss her too much because they still had their dad, and he was the best.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them.
The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s.
Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret
because when their mum was a teenager,
people from the Nigerian village she grew up in
were scared of her when they found out about her gifts.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Misha could talk to animals, and Ziggy could shapeshift into them. The problem was, Dad didn’t know about their powers, or Mum’s. Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts.
Explore
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. 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...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat are the names of the twins?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
This story is about twins, Misha and Ziggy. Both twins have special powers. Their mum was from Nigeria, a large country in western Africa.
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat are the names of the twins?
Reveal Explainer
The children in the story are named Misha and Ziggy. They are twins.
Teach
From: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025. 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 does the twins’ dad do for work?
B) What special powers do Ziggy and Misha have?
C) How old were the twins when they got their special powers?
D) Why did Grandma Yinka tell the twins to keep their powers a secret?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a wildlife TV presenter
A) What does the twins’ dad do for work?
Text Mark Evidence he travels the world and films many different kinds of animals
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Misha could talk to animals
B) What special powers do Ziggy and Misha have?
Text Mark Evidence Ziggy could shapeshift into them (animals)
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) How old were the twins when they got their special powers?
Text Mark Evidence six years old
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) Why did Grandma Yinka tell the twins to keep their powers a secret?
Text Mark Evidence people from the Nigerian village she (mum) grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘shapeshift’?
Find Me
Find the animal form that their mum chose:
One day, just after their eighth birthday, the twins came home and Mum had vanished. They found the shedded skin of a chameleon on their Mum’s favourite chair and knew she had left to live in her animal form.
Discuss then check
chameleon
True or False?
Misha and Ziggy were both eight years old when their mother left.
False
True
Tick Me
Grandma Yinka had warned Misha and Ziggy to keep their powers a secret because when their mum was a teenager, people from the Nigerian village she grew up in were scared of her when they found out about her gifts. It was better to be safe than sorry.
What does Grandma Yinka mean that ‘it was better to be safe than sorry’?
Tick one:
A) Grandma Yinka was sorry their mum had left.
B) Keeping the powers secret was not important.
Check
C) Hiding the powers helps protect the twins.
Click if correct
D) They should say sorry to their dad for lying.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
share a story.
Reveal
Read your favourite fiction book aloud to a friend or family member.
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: Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.