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A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals: 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?
Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
B) What customs are used to celebrate Chinese New Year?
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
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Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
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move
most
last
whole
people
every
would
because
any
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Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
origins
festivities
firecraker
deafening bangs
explosions
lanterns
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 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
origins
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
origins
Your turn
firecracker
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
festivities
deafening bangs
explosions
lanterns
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers. People hid inside their houses away from this terrifying creature… until one day a brave boy used a loud firecracker to scare off the monster.
What did you notice?
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Legend says that a monster called Nian
would appear every New Year’s Eve
and terrify local Chinese villagers.
People hid inside their houses
away from this terrifying creature…
until one day a brave boy used a loud firecracker to scare off the monster.
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers. People hid inside their houses away from this terrifying creature… until one day a brave boy used a loud firecracker to scare off the monster.
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Also known as the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year marks the beginning of the new calendar year in China and it is one of the most important celebrations of the whole year.
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false: Chinese New Year celebrates winter.
This sentence could be true or false so I will ‘look around’ for winter or any other seasons of the year. This tells me that Chinese New Year is also called the Spring Festival. It celebrates spring, not winter. This sentence is false.
Reveal Explainer
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 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
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
B) What customs are used to celebrate Chinese New Year?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
Practise & Apply
Text Mark Evidence people fill the streets to watch colourful parades of dancing dragons and lions
parades
Acceptable Answers
fireworks
Text Mark Evidence - from that moment on, people celebrated the defeat of the monster with fireworks - huge fireworks displays are put on
B) What customs are used to celebrate Chinese New Year?
Text Mark Evidence some families begin the celebration with a dinner on New Year’s Eve to celebrate the previous year
a special dinner with family
Text Mark Evidence others clean their house before the festivities begin to get rid of any bad luck from last year
cleaning their house
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - on the final day of the festival, paper lanterns are lit - people believe this (lighting lanterns) will light the way for the New Year
lantern festival / lighting lanterns
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘lanterns’?
Fill the Gaps
explosions
deafening
Huge fireworks displays are put on and bangs fill the air while bright and colourful dance across the sky.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Find Me
Find the word that means‘the beginning or start’:
The origins of the festival date back thousands of years. Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers.
Discuss then check
origins
Sequence Me
Put the events in the correct order:
A) Paper lanterns are lit on the final day of the festival.
B) A brave boy defeated the monster with a firecracker.
C) People clean their homes to prepare for festivities.
D) The celebrations start with a family dinner.
Click if correct
Check
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 adadpted for accessibility from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals: 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?
Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
B) What customs are used to celebrate Chinese New Year?
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
move
most
last
whole
people
every
would
because
any
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
origins
festivities
firecraker
deafening bangs
explosions
lanterns
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 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
origins
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
origins
Your turn
firecracker
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
festivities
deafening bangs
explosions
lanterns
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers. People hid inside their houses away from this terrifying creature… until one day a brave boy used a loud firecracker to scare off the monster.
What did you notice?
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Legend says that a monster called Nian
would appear every New Year’s Eve
and terrify local Chinese villagers.
People hid inside their houses
away from this terrifying creature…
until one day a brave boy used a loud firecracker to scare off the monster.
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers. People hid inside their houses away from this terrifying creature… until one day a brave boy used a loud firecracker to scare off the monster.
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 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) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Also known as the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year marks the beginning of the new calendar year in China and it is one of the most important celebrations of the whole year.
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false: Chinese New Year celebrates winter.
This sentence could be true or false so I will ‘look around’ for winter or any other seasons of the year. This tells me that Chinese New Year is also called the Spring Festival. It celebrates spring, not winter. This sentence is false.
Reveal Explainer
From: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 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
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
B) What customs are used to celebrate Chinese New Year?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
A) Put ticks (✓) in the table to show which statements are true and which are false.
Practise & Apply
Text Mark Evidence people fill the streets to watch colourful parades of dancing dragons and lions
parades
Acceptable Answers
fireworks
Text Mark Evidence - from that moment on, people celebrated the defeat of the monster with fireworks - huge fireworks displays are put on
B) What customs are used to celebrate Chinese New Year?
Text Mark Evidence some families begin the celebration with a dinner on New Year’s Eve to celebrate the previous year
a special dinner with family
Text Mark Evidence others clean their house before the festivities begin to get rid of any bad luck from last year
cleaning their house
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - on the final day of the festival, paper lanterns are lit - people believe this (lighting lanterns) will light the way for the New Year
lantern festival / lighting lanterns
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘lanterns’?
Fill the Gaps
explosions
deafening
Huge fireworks displays are put on and bangs fill the air while bright and colourful dance across the sky.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Find Me
Find the word that means‘the beginning or start’:
The origins of the festival date back thousands of years. Legend says that a monster called Nian would appear every New Year’s Eve and terrify local Chinese villagers.
Discuss then check
origins
Sequence Me
Put the events in the correct order:
A) Paper lanterns are lit on the final day of the festival.
B) A brave boy defeated the monster with a firecracker.
C) People clean their homes to prepare for festivities.
D) The celebrations start with a family dinner.
Click if correct
Check
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 adadpted for accessibility from: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
deafening
explosions