Ready Steady Read Together
Little People, Big Dreams: Non-Fiction Lesson 4
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
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What do you know and think?
1967 – At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers. At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
B) What two things from his childhood helped Steve invent so many Apple devices?
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Let me read today's text
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Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
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after
money
every
behind
who
most
old
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
adopted
release
dismantle
successful
rapidly
branches out
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. 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
adopted
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
adopted
Your turn
dismantle
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
release
successful
rapidly
branches out
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work. At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers. At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
What did you notice?
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop,
where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work.
At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers.
At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work. At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers. At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. 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) Link the year to the correct fact.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
• 1955 – Steve is born in San Francisco, California.
Reveal years and facts
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
I know a timeline starts from the earliest date and goes in order ending with the latest. I will ‘look around’ for the year 1955. I will reread the timeline entry for that year. I can then ‘find and take’ the answer. This tells me Steve was born in 1955. D is the correct match for 1955.
Reveal Explainer
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. 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) What two things from his childhood helped Steve invent so many Apple devices?
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
1) 1955
2) 1668
3) 1976
4) 1985
5) 2011
A) Steve became friends with ‘Woz’.
B) Steve dies at age fifty-six.
C) Steve and Woz make the Apple 1 computer.
D) Steve was born.
E) Steve creates Pixar and Toy Story is made.
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
1) 1955
D) Steve was born.
2) 1968
A) Steve became friends with ‘Woz’.
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
3) 1976
C) Steve and Woz make the Apple 1 computer.
4) 1985
E) Steve creates Pixar and Toy Story is made.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
5) 2011
B) Steve dies at age fifty-six.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work
his interest in how things work
B) What two things from his childhood helped Steve invent so many Apple devices?
Text Mark Evidence at a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers
his interest in computers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Find Me
Find the word whichmeans ‘take apart’.
• 1960s – Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work.
Discuss then check
dismantle
True or False?
Steve is famous for making computers as big as a room.
True
False
Which One's Right?
The company grows rapidly.
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘rapidly’?
A slowly
B speedily
D quietly
C carefully
Tick Me
Steve rejoins Apple. Under his leadership, itbranches out into new, successful products, including:
- iMac Computer (1998)
- iTunes music software (2001)
- iPad music player (2001)
- iPhone (2007)
- iPad tablet (2010)
Tick the answer that best completes the sentence. Branches out means that the company...
Tick one
A opened more stores.
B started selling trees.
Check
C made new products.
Click if correct
D closed down.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
ask questions.
Reveal
Think of questions as you read and look for answers in the text.
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: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
1) 1955
2) 1668
3) 1976
4) 1985
5) 2011
A) Steve became friends with ‘Woz’.
B) Steve dies at age fifty-six.
C) Steve and Woz make the Apple 1 computer.
D) Steve was born.
E) Steve creates Pixar and Toy Story is made.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Little People, Big Dreams: 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?
1967 – At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers. At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
B) What two things from his childhood helped Steve invent so many Apple devices?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
after
money
every
behind
who
most
old
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
adopted
release
dismantle
successful
rapidly
branches out
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. 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
adopted
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
adopted
Your turn
dismantle
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
release
successful
rapidly
branches out
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work. At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers. At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
What did you notice?
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop,
where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work.
At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers.
At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work. At a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers. At that time, they are enormous – as big as a room!
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. 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) Link the year to the correct fact.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
• 1955 – Steve is born in San Francisco, California.
Reveal years and facts
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
I know a timeline starts from the earliest date and goes in order ending with the latest. I will ‘look around’ for the year 1955. I will reread the timeline entry for that year. I can then ‘find and take’ the answer. This tells me Steve was born in 1955. D is the correct match for 1955.
Reveal Explainer
From: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021. 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) What two things from his childhood helped Steve invent so many Apple devices?
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
1) 1955 2) 1668 3) 1976 4) 1985 5) 2011
A) Steve became friends with ‘Woz’. B) Steve dies at age fifty-six. C) Steve and Woz make the Apple 1 computer. D) Steve was born. E) Steve creates Pixar and Toy Story is made.
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
1) 1955
D) Steve was born.
2) 1968
A) Steve became friends with ‘Woz’.
A) Link the year to the correct fact.
3) 1976
C) Steve and Woz make the Apple 1 computer.
4) 1985
E) Steve creates Pixar and Toy Story is made.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
5) 2011
B) Steve dies at age fifty-six.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work
his interest in how things work
B) What two things from his childhood helped Steve invent so many Apple devices?
Text Mark Evidence at a summer camp, twelve-year-old Steve falls in love with computers
his interest in computers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Find Me
Find the word whichmeans ‘take apart’.
• 1960s – Each day after school, Steve joins his dad in his workshop, where they dismantle everyday items to see how they work.
Discuss then check
dismantle
True or False?
Steve is famous for making computers as big as a room.
True
False
Which One's Right?
The company grows rapidly. Which word is closest in meaning to ‘rapidly’?
A slowly
B speedily
D quietly
C carefully
Tick Me
Steve rejoins Apple. Under his leadership, itbranches out into new, successful products, including:
Tick the answer that best completes the sentence. Branches out means that the company...
Tick one
A opened more stores.
B started selling trees.
Check
C made new products.
Click if correct
D closed down.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
ask questions.
Reveal
Think of questions as you read and look for answers in the text.
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: Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
1) 1955 2) 1668 3) 1976 4) 1985 5) 2011
A) Steve became friends with ‘Woz’. B) Steve dies at age fifty-six. C) Steve and Woz make the Apple 1 computer. D) Steve was born. E) Steve creates Pixar and Toy Story is made.