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The Usbourne Beginner's Cookbook: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Sprinkle the apples with a large pinch of mixed spice and a tablespoon of caster sugar.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
B) What are the three types of sugar mentioned in this recipe?
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
C) What should the crumble look like when it is mixed?
D) How do you know when the crumble is fully baked?
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Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
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Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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fudgey
rub in
coarse
coated
blunt
evenly
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. 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
fudgey
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Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
fudgey
rub in
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
coarse
evenly
blunt
coated
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Rubbing in
Use a blunt knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter. Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are coated with flour. Rub the pieces between your fingertips. As you rub, lift the mixture up and let it drop. It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
What did you notice?
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Rubbing in
Use a blunt knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter
Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are coated with flour.
Rub the pieces between your fingertips.
As you rub, lift the mixture up and let it drop.
It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Rubbing in
Use a blunt knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter. Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are coated with flour. Rub the pieces between your fingertips. As you rub, lift the mixture up and let it drop. It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Look Around,Find and Take & Sequence It
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Put the events in the correct order!
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
1. Cut the apples into quarters, peel them then cut out the cores. Cut the quarters into chunks. Put them in a medium pie dish.
Reveal recipe steps
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
Reveal Explainer
First, I will read through the steps listed. Next, I will ‘look around’ starting at the first step in the recipe. I can see that the first instruction when making fruit crumble is to peel and chop the apples. I can now ‘find and take’ the first step: B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks. I will repeat this process to ‘sequence it’.
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. 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) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
A) Make the crumble topping using flour, butter and sugar and spread over apples.
B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks.
C) Cool and serve with cream or ice cream.
D) Sprinkle the apples with spices and sugar.
E) Bake until the topping is evenly browned.
B) What are the three types of sugar mentioned in this recipe?
C) What should the crumble look like when it is mixed?
D) How do you know when the crumble is fully baked?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks.
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
D) Sprinkle the apples with spices and sugar.
A) Make the crumble topping using flour, butter and sugar and spread over apples.
E) Bake until the topping is evenly browned.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
C) Cool and serve with cream or ice cream.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
caster sugar
B) What are the three types of sugar mentioned in this recipe?
light soft brown sugar
Demerara sugar
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What should the crumble look like when it is mixed?
Click to reveal...
(it will mix to look like/when the mixture looks like) coarse breadcrumbs
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence bake the crumble for 45 minutes
baked for the correct amount of time
D) How do you know when the crumble is fully baked?
Text Mark Evidence bake…until the top is golden
its appearance
Text Mark Evidence push the tip of a knife into a piece of apple…if it’s not soft, put the crumble back into the oven
texture of the apples
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘coated’?
Find Me
Find the word which means‘rough or not in small pieces’:
5) When the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs, mix in the brown sugar. Mix it in with your fingers too.
Discuss then check
coarse
Fill the Gaps
mixture
blunt
coated
Rubbing in
Use a knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter. Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are with flour. Rub the pieces between your fingertips. As you rub, lift the up and let it drop. It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Tick Me
Why does the recipe say to leave the crumble to cool before serving it?
Tick one
A To make the crumble look better
B To protect your hands from the hot oven
Check
C To help the crumble taste nicer
Click if correct
D To make sure the crumble doesn’t burn your mouth
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create your own fact book.
Reveal
Write down what you've learned and add pictures or diagrams.
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: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
blunt
coated
mixture
A) Make the crumble topping using flour, butter and sugar and spread over apples.
B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks.
C) Cool and serve with cream or ice cream.
D) Sprinkle the apples with spices and sugar.
E) Bake until the topping is evenly browned.
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Ready Steady Read Together
The Usbourne Beginner's Cookbook: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Sprinkle the apples with a large pinch of mixed spice and a tablespoon of caster sugar.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
B) What are the three types of sugar mentioned in this recipe?
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
C) What should the crumble look like when it is mixed?
D) How do you know when the crumble is fully baked?
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
fudgey
rub in
coarse
coated
blunt
evenly
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. 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
fudgey
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
fudgey
rub in
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
coarse
evenly
blunt
coated
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Rubbing in Use a blunt knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter. Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are coated with flour. Rub the pieces between your fingertips. As you rub, lift the mixture up and let it drop. It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
What did you notice?
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Rubbing in
Use a blunt knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter
Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are coated with flour.
Rub the pieces between your fingertips.
As you rub, lift the mixture up and let it drop.
It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Rubbing in Use a blunt knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter. Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are coated with flour. Rub the pieces between your fingertips. As you rub, lift the mixture up and let it drop. It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around,Find and Take & Sequence It
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Put the events in the correct order!
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
1. Cut the apples into quarters, peel them then cut out the cores. Cut the quarters into chunks. Put them in a medium pie dish.
Reveal recipe steps
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
Reveal Explainer
First, I will read through the steps listed. Next, I will ‘look around’ starting at the first step in the recipe. I can see that the first instruction when making fruit crumble is to peel and chop the apples. I can now ‘find and take’ the first step: B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks. I will repeat this process to ‘sequence it’.
From: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999. 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) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
A) Make the crumble topping using flour, butter and sugar and spread over apples. B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks. C) Cool and serve with cream or ice cream. D) Sprinkle the apples with spices and sugar. E) Bake until the topping is evenly browned.
B) What are the three types of sugar mentioned in this recipe?
C) What should the crumble look like when it is mixed?
D) How do you know when the crumble is fully baked?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks.
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
D) Sprinkle the apples with spices and sugar.
A) Make the crumble topping using flour, butter and sugar and spread over apples.
E) Bake until the topping is evenly browned.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
C) Cool and serve with cream or ice cream.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
caster sugar
B) What are the three types of sugar mentioned in this recipe?
light soft brown sugar
Demerara sugar
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What should the crumble look like when it is mixed?
Click to reveal...
(it will mix to look like/when the mixture looks like) coarse breadcrumbs
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence bake the crumble for 45 minutes
baked for the correct amount of time
D) How do you know when the crumble is fully baked?
Text Mark Evidence bake…until the top is golden
its appearance
Text Mark Evidence push the tip of a knife into a piece of apple…if it’s not soft, put the crumble back into the oven
texture of the apples
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘coated’?
Find Me
Find the word which means‘rough or not in small pieces’:
5) When the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs, mix in the brown sugar. Mix it in with your fingers too.
Discuss then check
coarse
Fill the Gaps
mixture
blunt
coated
Rubbing in Use a knife to mix the pieces of margarine or butter. Stir and cut the flour until the pieces are with flour. Rub the pieces between your fingertips. As you rub, lift the up and let it drop. It will mix to look like breadcrumbs.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Tick Me
Why does the recipe say to leave the crumble to cool before serving it?
Tick one
A To make the crumble look better
B To protect your hands from the hot oven
Check
C To help the crumble taste nicer
Click if correct
D To make sure the crumble doesn’t burn your mouth
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create your own fact book.
Reveal
Write down what you've learned and add pictures or diagrams.
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: The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook by Fiona Watt © 1999 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
blunt
coated
mixture
A) Make the crumble topping using flour, butter and sugar and spread over apples. B) Peel the apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks. C) Cool and serve with cream or ice cream. D) Sprinkle the apples with spices and sugar. E) Bake until the topping is evenly browned.