Ready Steady Read Together
October, October: 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?
We live in the woods and we are wild.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
This world is ours and we are alone.
Just us.
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
We live in the woods.
We live in the woods and we are wild.
Our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it. They’ve been chopped and planed and smoothed into a house, and so it’s not the same as looking at the twisted reaches of the branches but I like to be inside the woods. It feels like a secret because we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way, even though people know we’re here. We have to go into the village every year or so and buy the food we can’t grow or the clothes we can’t make, which is nearly all clothes except for socks and even those aren’t very good when I try. Dad can turn a ball of wool into a foot shape with a click-clack of needles and half an eye on the stove but I can’t manage more than a tangle. We get all the things we need for another year and slip back into the woods while the village forgets us again.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
The house was built by Dad before I was born. I wasn’t born here though, because at the last minute the woman who is my mother said no way and she was whisked off to the hospital and she was pushed down corridors that were white and bright and treeless and blank like nothing she remembered. She remembered all the things like microwaves and internet and heating that happens at the push of a button and not from the roar of a stove that makes your clothes smell smoky and sweet. She remembered, and when she had her baby wrapped in a white blanket that matched the walls and the sheets and the pillows she said to Dad that she couldn’t go back. She did, for a bit. But she was floating off into the world that fringes ours, and when I was four she was gone. In my head I think I remember the day she left but the memory is like trying to hold water in my cupped hands and it trickles away before my eyes. There are wisps of a woman holding on to my hand and I feel my whole body being pulled along by the tide of another person running and my legs can’t keep up. There’s crying and I know that I let out a shriek so loud it pierced the sky and the birds scattered.
I wouldn’t let her leave with me. I wouldn’t leave the woods.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
twisted reaches of the branches
frame
planed
wisps
whisked off
fringes
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From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. 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
frame
Explore
Find Read Talk
Our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it. They’ve been chopped and planed and smoothed into a house, and so it’s not the same as looking at the twisted reaches of the branches but I like to be inside the woods.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
frame
Your turn
planed
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
twisted reaches of the branches
whisked off
fringes
wisp
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
This world is ours and we are alone.
Just us.
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
We live in the woods.
We live in the woods and we are wild.
Our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it. They’ve been chopped and planed and smoothed into a house, and so it’s not the same as looking at the twisted reaches of the branches but I like to be inside the woods. It feels like a secret because we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way, even though people know we’re here. We have to go into the village every year or so and buy the food we can’t grow or the clothes we can’t make, which is nearly all clothes except for socks and even those aren’t very good when I try. Dad can turn a ball of wool into a foot shape with a click-clack of needles and half an eye on the stove but I can’t manage more than a tangle. We get all the things we need for another year and slip back into the woods while the village forgets us again.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
The house was built by Dad before I was born. I wasn’t born here though, because at the last minute the woman who is my mother said no way and she was whisked off to the hospital and she was pushed down corridors that were white and bright and treeless and blank like nothing she remembered. She remembered all the things like microwaves and internet and heating that happens at the push of a button and not from the roar of a stove that makes your clothes smell smoky and sweet. She remembered, and when she had her baby wrapped in a white blanket that matched the walls and the sheets and the pillows she said to Dad that she couldn’t go back. She did, for a bit. But she was floating off into the world that fringes ours, and when I was four she was gone. In my head I think I remember the day she left but the memory is like trying to hold water in my cupped hands and it trickles away before my eyes. There are wisps of a woman holding on to my hand and I feel my whole body being pulled along by the tide of another person running and my legs can’t keep up. There’s crying and I know that I let out a shriek so loud it pierced the sky and the birds scattered.
I wouldn’t let her leave with me. I wouldn’t leave the woods.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
This world is ours and we are alone.
Just us.
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble.
We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
We live in the woods.
We live in the woods and we are wild.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
This world is ours and we are alone.
Just us.
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble.
We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
We live in the woods.
We live in the woods and we are wild.
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
This world is ours and we are alone.
Just us.
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble.
We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
We live in the woods.
We live in the woods and we are wild.
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
This world is ours and we are alone.
Just us.
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Reveal Explainer
The words ‘we are alone’ and ‘just us’ show that October and her father live a solitary, isolated life. The words ‘the world is ours’ suggest that the two of them have everything they need within their small, private world. It shows their lives feel complete and they enjoy their independence from the rest of the world.
Teach
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. 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 can we infer about October and her life with her father?
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - a pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble - we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way
isolated from the rest of the world
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Text Mark Evidence - we are everything and we are wild - we live in the woods and we are wild - our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it - I like to be inside the woods
surrounded by and part of nature
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way - we have to go into the village every year or so - we get all the things we need for another year and slip back into the woods while the village forgets us again
they don’t get visitors / rarely see other people
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way - I wouldn’t let her (mother) leave with me…I wouldn’t leave the woods
don’t want to see other people / prefer to be alone in the woods
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Text Mark Evidence - we have to go into the village every year or so and buy the food we can’t grow or the clothes we can’t make - Dad can turn a ball of wool into a foot shape with a clack-clack of needles - the house was built by Dad before I was born
self-sufficient and capable
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the woman who is my mother
emotional detachment / October doesn’t call her ‘Mum’
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Text Mark Evidence - she (mother) remembered all the things like microwaves and internet and heating that happens at the push of a button and not from the roar of a stove that makes your clothes smell smoky and sweet - she remembered (her old life) and… she (mother) said to Dad that she couldn’t go back
mother prefers modern life and conveniences
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - when I was four she (mother) was gone - I think I remember the day she (mother) left, but the memory is like trying to hold water in my cup hands and it trickles away before my eyes - there are wisps of a woman
mother left the family and doesn’t see October/October barely remembers her mother
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I feel my whole body being pulled along by the tide of another person running and my legs can’t keep up - I wouldn’t let her (mother) leave with me
mother tried to take October with her when she left
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Text Mark Evidence - there’s crying and I know I let out a shriek so loud it pierced the sky - I wouldn’t let her (mother) leave with me…I wouldn’t leave the woods
October preferred staying in the woods to going with her mother
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which is the best match for the ‘planed’?
Which One's Right?
I wasn’t born here though, because at the last minute the woman who is my mother said no way and she was whisked off to the hospital...
Which answer best completes the sentence?
The words ‘whisked off’ suggest that October’s mother was taken away…
B) abruptly.
A) secretly.
D) excitedly.
C) carefully.
True or False?
October cried and let out a loud shriek because she was upset that her mother was leaving.
True
False
Tick Me
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble.
What does this line tell us about October and her father?
Tick one:
A They are fun-loving and enjoy playing with simple toys and games together.
B They enjoy travelling and exploring the world together.
Check
C Their life feels too small, cramped and confined.
D They have all they need in their own private little world together.
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
ask,"What if?"
Reveal
Imagine how the story would change if the characters made different choices.
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Ready Steady Read Together
October, October: 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?
We live in the woods and we are wild.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
This world is ours and we are alone. Just us. A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild. We live in the woods. We live in the woods and we are wild. Our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it. They’ve been chopped and planed and smoothed into a house, and so it’s not the same as looking at the twisted reaches of the branches but I like to be inside the woods. It feels like a secret because we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way, even though people know we’re here. We have to go into the village every year or so and buy the food we can’t grow or the clothes we can’t make, which is nearly all clothes except for socks and even those aren’t very good when I try. Dad can turn a ball of wool into a foot shape with a click-clack of needles and half an eye on the stove but I can’t manage more than a tangle. We get all the things we need for another year and slip back into the woods while the village forgets us again.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
The house was built by Dad before I was born. I wasn’t born here though, because at the last minute the woman who is my mother said no way and she was whisked off to the hospital and she was pushed down corridors that were white and bright and treeless and blank like nothing she remembered. She remembered all the things like microwaves and internet and heating that happens at the push of a button and not from the roar of a stove that makes your clothes smell smoky and sweet. She remembered, and when she had her baby wrapped in a white blanket that matched the walls and the sheets and the pillows she said to Dad that she couldn’t go back. She did, for a bit. But she was floating off into the world that fringes ours, and when I was four she was gone. In my head I think I remember the day she left but the memory is like trying to hold water in my cupped hands and it trickles away before my eyes. There are wisps of a woman holding on to my hand and I feel my whole body being pulled along by the tide of another person running and my legs can’t keep up. There’s crying and I know that I let out a shriek so loud it pierced the sky and the birds scattered. I wouldn’t let her leave with me. I wouldn’t leave the woods.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
twisted reaches of the branches
frame
planed
wisps
whisked off
fringes
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. 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
frame
Explore
Find Read Talk
Our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it. They’ve been chopped and planed and smoothed into a house, and so it’s not the same as looking at the twisted reaches of the branches but I like to be inside the woods.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
frame
Your turn
planed
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
twisted reaches of the branches
whisked off
fringes
wisp
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
This world is ours and we are alone. Just us. A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild. We live in the woods. We live in the woods and we are wild. Our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it. They’ve been chopped and planed and smoothed into a house, and so it’s not the same as looking at the twisted reaches of the branches but I like to be inside the woods. It feels like a secret because we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way, even though people know we’re here. We have to go into the village every year or so and buy the food we can’t grow or the clothes we can’t make, which is nearly all clothes except for socks and even those aren’t very good when I try. Dad can turn a ball of wool into a foot shape with a click-clack of needles and half an eye on the stove but I can’t manage more than a tangle. We get all the things we need for another year and slip back into the woods while the village forgets us again.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
The house was built by Dad before I was born. I wasn’t born here though, because at the last minute the woman who is my mother said no way and she was whisked off to the hospital and she was pushed down corridors that were white and bright and treeless and blank like nothing she remembered. She remembered all the things like microwaves and internet and heating that happens at the push of a button and not from the roar of a stove that makes your clothes smell smoky and sweet. She remembered, and when she had her baby wrapped in a white blanket that matched the walls and the sheets and the pillows she said to Dad that she couldn’t go back. She did, for a bit. But she was floating off into the world that fringes ours, and when I was four she was gone. In my head I think I remember the day she left but the memory is like trying to hold water in my cupped hands and it trickles away before my eyes. There are wisps of a woman holding on to my hand and I feel my whole body being pulled along by the tide of another person running and my legs can’t keep up. There’s crying and I know that I let out a shriek so loud it pierced the sky and the birds scattered. I wouldn’t let her leave with me. I wouldn’t leave the woods.
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
This world is ours and we are alone. Just us. A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild. We live in the woods. We live in the woods and we are wild.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
This world is ours and we are alone.
Just us.
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble.
We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
We live in the woods.
We live in the woods and we are wild.
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
This world is ours and we are alone. Just us. A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild. We live in the woods. We live in the woods and we are wild.
Explore
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
This world is ours and we are alone. Just us. A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble. We are tiny and we are everything and we are wild.
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Reveal Explainer
The words ‘we are alone’ and ‘just us’ show that October and her father live a solitary, isolated life. The words ‘the world is ours’ suggest that the two of them have everything they need within their small, private world. It shows their lives feel complete and they enjoy their independence from the rest of the world.
Teach
From: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020. 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 can we infer about October and her life with her father?
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - a pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble - we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way
isolated from the rest of the world
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Text Mark Evidence - we are everything and we are wild - we live in the woods and we are wild - our house sits in the woods and it’s made from the trees that frame it - I like to be inside the woods
surrounded by and part of nature
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way - we have to go into the village every year or so - we get all the things we need for another year and slip back into the woods while the village forgets us again
they don’t get visitors / rarely see other people
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - we are hidden away and forgotten about in the best way - I wouldn’t let her (mother) leave with me…I wouldn’t leave the woods
don’t want to see other people / prefer to be alone in the woods
A) What can we infer about October and her life with her father?
Text Mark Evidence - we have to go into the village every year or so and buy the food we can’t grow or the clothes we can’t make - Dad can turn a ball of wool into a foot shape with a clack-clack of needles - the house was built by Dad before I was born
self-sufficient and capable
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the woman who is my mother
emotional detachment / October doesn’t call her ‘Mum’
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Text Mark Evidence - she (mother) remembered all the things like microwaves and internet and heating that happens at the push of a button and not from the roar of a stove that makes your clothes smell smoky and sweet - she remembered (her old life) and… she (mother) said to Dad that she couldn’t go back
mother prefers modern life and conveniences
Go to the next slide for more....
Text Mark Evidence - when I was four she (mother) was gone - I think I remember the day she (mother) left, but the memory is like trying to hold water in my cup hands and it trickles away before my eyes - there are wisps of a woman
mother left the family and doesn’t see October/October barely remembers her mother
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I feel my whole body being pulled along by the tide of another person running and my legs can’t keep up - I wouldn’t let her (mother) leave with me
mother tried to take October with her when she left
B) What can we infer about October’s mother and the narrator’s feelings towards her?
Text Mark Evidence - there’s crying and I know I let out a shriek so loud it pierced the sky - I wouldn’t let her (mother) leave with me…I wouldn’t leave the woods
October preferred staying in the woods to going with her mother
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which is the best match for the ‘planed’?
Which One's Right?
I wasn’t born here though, because at the last minute the woman who is my mother said no way and she was whisked off to the hospital...
Which answer best completes the sentence? The words ‘whisked off’ suggest that October’s mother was taken away…
B) abruptly.
A) secretly.
D) excitedly.
C) carefully.
True or False?
October cried and let out a loud shriek because she was upset that her mother was leaving.
True
False
Tick Me
A pocket of people in a pocket of a world that’s as small as a marble.
What does this line tell us about October and her father?
Tick one:
A They are fun-loving and enjoy playing with simple toys and games together.
B They enjoy travelling and exploring the world together.
Check
C Their life feels too small, cramped and confined.
D They have all they need in their own private little world together.
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
ask,"What if?"
Reveal
Imagine how the story would change if the characters made different choices.
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: October, October by Katya Balen © 2020 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.