Ready Steady Read Together
Digging for Victory: Poetry Lesson 3
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?
I hope it’s someone nice like Barbara Robinson who arrived from Bristol with her gas mask and trunk and was billeted with Carol…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
B) What qualities or behaviours would Bonnie prefer to avoid in a billeted stranger?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Tuesday 17th December 1940
I hope it’s someone nice
like Barbara Robinson
who arrived from Bristol
with her gas mask and trunk
and was billeted with Carol
(my best friend in the whole world)
last September.
Another Nancy Edwards
(who arrived on the same train
in her pigtails and pinafore)
would be all right too
(although I still don’t believe
what she said about
never having seen a cow before.
I’m sure she’s lying).
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Even a Betty Sanders
(who talks for all three of them)
wouldn’t be too bad,
just as long as
she doesn’t EVER say
that things are backward here.
I’ve heard that far too much already.
Or perhaps –
now here’s an idea –
it might be one of those land girls
who helps out on farms.
Mr Brown
(that’s our closest neighbour)
has requested some, you know,
now that his farmhands have gone off to fight.
(He’s got a lot on his plate at the moment,
what with being in the Home Guard and all.)
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I bet their trunks would be full of lipstick and pretty dresses,
stockings and high heels.
A land girl might curl my hair
and give me lovely things
just like a kind big sister.
How jealous the girls at school would be!
Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty,
the memories boxed up
and the dust swept away,
Just so long as that someone
isn’t a boy.
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
pinafore
land girls
backward
farmhands
a lot on his plate
Home Guard
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. 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
pinafore
Explore
Find Read Talk
Another Nancy Edwards
(who arrived on the same train
in her pigtails and pinafore)
would be all right too
(although I still don’t believe
what she said about
never having seen a cow before.
I’m sure she’s lying).
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
pinafore
Your turn
backward
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
land girls
farmhands
a lot on his plate
Home Guard
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Tuesday 17th December 1940
Reveal Vocabulary
I hope it’s someone nice
like Barbara Robinson
who arrived from Bristol
with her gas mask and trunk
and was billeted with Carol
(my best friend in the whole world)
last September.
Another Nancy Edwards
(who arrived on the same train
in her pigtails and pinafore)
would be all right too
(although I still don’t believe
what she said about
never having seen a cow before.
I’m sure she’s lying).
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Even a Betty Sanders
(who talks for all three of them)
wouldn’t be too bad,
just as long as
she doesn’t EVER say
that things are backward here.
I’ve heard that far too much already.
Reveal Vocabulary
Or perhaps –
now here’s an idea –
it might be one of those land girls
who helps out on farms.
Mr Brown
(that’s our closest neighbour)
has requested some, you know,
now that his farmhands have gone off to fight.
(He’s got a lot on his plate at the moment,
what with being in the Home Guard and all.)
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
I bet their trunks would be full of lipstick and pretty dresses,
stockings and high heels.
A land girl might curl my hair
and give me lovely things
just like a kind big sister.
How jealous the girls at school would be!
Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty,
the memories boxed up
and the dust swept away,
Just so long as that someone
isn’t a boy.
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister. How jealous the girls at school would be! Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away, I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay. Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister.
How jealous the girls at school would be!
Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away,
I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay.
Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister. How jealous the girls at school would be! Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away, I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay. Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I hope it’s someone nice
like Barbara Robinson
who arrived from Bristol
with her gas mask and trunk
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
In Lesson 2, Bonnie was dreading a billeted stranger and felt very upset about someone coming to live with them. This shows that she is thinking of others who had already been billeted. It is clear that Bonnie likes Barbara and that she is hopeful that someone nice like Barbara would stay with her family and is more open to the idea.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. 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 clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
B) What qualities or behaviours would Bonnie prefer to avoid in a billeted stranger?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I hope it’s someone nice like Barbara Robinson - another Nancy Edwards would be alright too - even a Betty Sanders wouldn’t be too bad
recalls good experiences with others who had been billeted
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
Text Mark Evidence or perhaps – now here’s an idea – it might be one of those land girls…I bet their trunks would be full of lipstick and pretty dresses, stockings and high heels
imagines exciting or glamourous possibilities
Text Mark Evidence a land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister
imagines the perks of a caring, sisterly figure
Text Mark Evidence how jealous the girls at school would be (if a land girl was billeted with her)
imagines impressing others
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay
admits her own excitement
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence I hope it’s someone nice
someone who is unkind
Text Mark Evidence Nancy Edwards would be all right too (although I still don’t believe what she said... I’m sure she’s lying)
someone who lies or fibs
B) What qualities or behaviours would Bonnie prefer to avoid in a billeted stranger?
Text Mark Evidence Betty Sanders (who talks for all three of them) wouldn’t be too bad
someone who talks too much
Text Mark Evidence just as long as she doesn’t EVER say that things are backward here…I’ve heard that far too much already
someone who criticises her village
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence just so long as that someone isn’t a boy
someone who is male
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘pinafore’?
Which One's Right?
Why might Nancy Edwards have said she never saw a cow before?
B She was scaredof cows.
A She likes lying toget attention.
D She liked teasing people for fun.
C She was fromthe city.
Fill the Gaps
farmhands
Home Guard
a lot on his plate
Mr Brown
(that’s our closest neighbour)
has requested some, you know,
now that his have gone off to fight.
(He’s got at the moment,
what with being in the and all.)
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Tick Me
Why did the author include words like gas mask, billeted, pinafore, land girls and Home Guard?
Tick two
A To teach the reader new vocabulary.
B To show the story was set during World War II.
Check
C The book was written a long time ago and that is how people spoke.
Click if correct
D To give clues about what life was like during that time.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
share poetry.
Reveal
Read a poem to someone else and discuss what it means for both of you.
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: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
farmhands
a lot on his plate
Home Guard
RSRT Y6 L3 Digging for Victory
Literacy Counts
Created on August 5, 2025
Start designing with a free template
Discover more than 1500 professional designs like these:
View
Essential Business Proposal
View
Project Roadmap Timeline
View
Step-by-Step Timeline: How to Develop an Idea
View
Artificial Intelligence History Timeline
View
Mind Map: The 4 Pillars of Success
View
Big Data: The Data That Drives the World
View
Momentum: Onboarding Presentation
Explore all templates
Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
Digging for Victory: Poetry Lesson 3
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?
I hope it’s someone nice like Barbara Robinson who arrived from Bristol with her gas mask and trunk and was billeted with Carol…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
B) What qualities or behaviours would Bonnie prefer to avoid in a billeted stranger?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Tuesday 17th December 1940
I hope it’s someone nice like Barbara Robinson who arrived from Bristol with her gas mask and trunk and was billeted with Carol (my best friend in the whole world) last September.
Another Nancy Edwards (who arrived on the same train in her pigtails and pinafore) would be all right too (although I still don’t believe what she said about never having seen a cow before. I’m sure she’s lying).
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Even a Betty Sanders (who talks for all three of them) wouldn’t be too bad, just as long as she doesn’t EVER say that things are backward here. I’ve heard that far too much already.
Or perhaps – now here’s an idea – it might be one of those land girls who helps out on farms.
Mr Brown (that’s our closest neighbour) has requested some, you know, now that his farmhands have gone off to fight. (He’s got a lot on his plate at the moment, what with being in the Home Guard and all.)
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I bet their trunks would be full of lipstick and pretty dresses, stockings and high heels. A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister. How jealous the girls at school would be!
Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away,
Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
pinafore
land girls
backward
farmhands
a lot on his plate
Home Guard
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. 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
pinafore
Explore
Find Read Talk
Another Nancy Edwards (who arrived on the same train in her pigtails and pinafore) would be all right too (although I still don’t believe what she said about never having seen a cow before. I’m sure she’s lying).
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
pinafore
Your turn
backward
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
land girls
farmhands
a lot on his plate
Home Guard
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Tuesday 17th December 1940
Reveal Vocabulary
I hope it’s someone nice like Barbara Robinson who arrived from Bristol with her gas mask and trunk and was billeted with Carol (my best friend in the whole world) last September.
Another Nancy Edwards (who arrived on the same train in her pigtails and pinafore) would be all right too (although I still don’t believe what she said about never having seen a cow before. I’m sure she’s lying).
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Even a Betty Sanders (who talks for all three of them) wouldn’t be too bad, just as long as she doesn’t EVER say that things are backward here. I’ve heard that far too much already.
Reveal Vocabulary
Or perhaps – now here’s an idea – it might be one of those land girls who helps out on farms.
Mr Brown (that’s our closest neighbour) has requested some, you know, now that his farmhands have gone off to fight. (He’s got a lot on his plate at the moment, what with being in the Home Guard and all.)
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
I bet their trunks would be full of lipstick and pretty dresses, stockings and high heels. A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister. How jealous the girls at school would be!
Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away,
Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister. How jealous the girls at school would be! Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away, I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay. Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister.
How jealous the girls at school would be!
Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away,
I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay.
Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
A land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister. How jealous the girls at school would be! Yes, by the time Ralph’s room is empty, the memories boxed up and the dust swept away, I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay. Just so long as that someone isn’t a boy.
Explore
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I hope it’s someone nice like Barbara Robinson who arrived from Bristol with her gas mask and trunk
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
In Lesson 2, Bonnie was dreading a billeted stranger and felt very upset about someone coming to live with them. This shows that she is thinking of others who had already been billeted. It is clear that Bonnie likes Barbara and that she is hopeful that someone nice like Barbara would stay with her family and is more open to the idea.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023. 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 clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
B) What qualities or behaviours would Bonnie prefer to avoid in a billeted stranger?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I hope it’s someone nice like Barbara Robinson - another Nancy Edwards would be alright too - even a Betty Sanders wouldn’t be too bad
recalls good experiences with others who had been billeted
A) What clues show that Bonnie is warming to the idea of a stranger coming to live with them?
Text Mark Evidence or perhaps – now here’s an idea – it might be one of those land girls…I bet their trunks would be full of lipstick and pretty dresses, stockings and high heels
imagines exciting or glamourous possibilities
Text Mark Evidence a land girl might curl my hair and give me lovely things just like a kind big sister
imagines the perks of a caring, sisterly figure
Text Mark Evidence how jealous the girls at school would be (if a land girl was billeted with her)
imagines impressing others
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence I realise that I’m actually looking forward to someone else coming to stay
admits her own excitement
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence I hope it’s someone nice
someone who is unkind
Text Mark Evidence Nancy Edwards would be all right too (although I still don’t believe what she said... I’m sure she’s lying)
someone who lies or fibs
B) What qualities or behaviours would Bonnie prefer to avoid in a billeted stranger?
Text Mark Evidence Betty Sanders (who talks for all three of them) wouldn’t be too bad
someone who talks too much
Text Mark Evidence just as long as she doesn’t EVER say that things are backward here…I’ve heard that far too much already
someone who criticises her village
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence just so long as that someone isn’t a boy
someone who is male
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘pinafore’?
Which One's Right?
Why might Nancy Edwards have said she never saw a cow before?
B She was scaredof cows.
A She likes lying toget attention.
D She liked teasing people for fun.
C She was fromthe city.
Fill the Gaps
farmhands
Home Guard
a lot on his plate
Mr Brown (that’s our closest neighbour) has requested some, you know, now that his have gone off to fight. (He’s got at the moment, what with being in the and all.)
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Tick Me
Why did the author include words like gas mask, billeted, pinafore, land girls and Home Guard?
Tick two
A To teach the reader new vocabulary.
B To show the story was set during World War II.
Check
C The book was written a long time ago and that is how people spoke.
Click if correct
D To give clues about what life was like during that time.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
share poetry.
Reveal
Read a poem to someone else and discuss what it means for both of you.
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: Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
farmhands
a lot on his plate
Home Guard