Ready Steady Read Together
The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas: Non-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?
Press your knuckles into the paint. Turn your hand sideways and print a body.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
B) Put these steps in the correct order to make the seahorse.
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
background
knuckles
shades
snout
pincers
stalks
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From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. 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
background
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
background
Your turn
shades
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
knuckles
snout
pincers
stalks
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Little rainbow fish
1. Press the fat part of your thumb into several colours of paint. Print it. 2. Add a tail with the fingertip. For the eye, dip the end of an old pencil in paint, then print it.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Little rainbow fish
1. Press the fat part of your thumb into several colours of paint.
Print it.
2. Add a tail with the fingertip.
For the eye, dip the end of an old pencil in paint,
then print it.
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Little rainbow fish
1. Press the fat part of your thumb into several colours of paint. Print it. 2. Add a tail with the fingertip. For the eye, dip the end of an old pencil in paint, then print it.
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. 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) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I will ‘look around’ the whole text. I can ‘find and take’ the first item. I will need paper so I can create my painting. It suggests that the paper is light-coloured so white, yellow or any other pale-coloured paper would work.
Reveal Explainer
A) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
Teach
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. 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 equipment will you need to create these prints?
B) Put these steps in the correct order to make the seahorse.
A) When the sea is dry, pour two shades of paint.
B) Create the background using foodwrap, paint and paper.
C) Use a fingertip to create a curved tail.
D) Add a snout and three fins.
E) Use different parts of your hand to make the head and body.
Text mark
Find the answers
Text Mark Evidence you’ll need to be near a sink and have lots of paper towels
things to clean up
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence plastic food wrap
plastic food wrap
Text Mark Evidence - blue paint - bright colour - two shades of ready-mix or poster paint - two or three colours of paint - several colours of paint
paint
A) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
newspaper
Text Mark Evidence a pad of newspapers
Text Mark Evidence cardboard/a piece of thin cardboard
cardboard
Text Mark Evidence the end of an old pencil
pencil
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - the top of your fingers - your knuckles - your hand - your little finger - the same finger - a fingertip - the fat part of your thumb
parts of your hand
Acceptable Answers
B) Create the background using foodwrap, paint and paper.
A) When the sea is dry, pour two shades of paint.
B) Put these steps in the correct order to make the seahorse.
E) Use different parts of your hand to make the head and body.
D) Add a snout and three fins.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
C) Use a fingertip to create a curved tail.
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘shades’?
Sequence Me
Put these steps in the correct order to make a little rainbow fish:
A) Press your thumb on the paper to make the body.
B) Add an eye using paint on the end of an old pencil.
C) Dip your thumb in different colours of paint.
D) Make the tail using paint and your fingertip.
Click if correct
Check
Tick Me
Tick the answer which best completes the sentence:The most important thing to make rainbow fish is…
Tick one
A a ruler and a pencil.
B thin strips of cardboard.
Check
C many brightly coloured paints.
Click if correct
D a pad of newspaper.
Link Me
Link each item with the tool or bodypart used to make its print:
1 Seahorse’s snout
A edge of cardboard
2 Crab’s pincers
B little finger as far as the knuckle
Check
3 Fan fish’s tail
C V-shaped cardboard
Click if correct
4 Rainbow fish’s eye
D end of an old pencil
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
highlight what stands out.
Reveal
If the book is yours, underline or mark important parts.
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: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas: Non-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?
Press your knuckles into the paint. Turn your hand sideways and print a body.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
B) Put these steps in the correct order to make the seahorse.
Explore
Let me read today's text whilst I show you the illustrations...
Explore
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
background
knuckles
shades
snout
pincers
stalks
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. 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
background
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
background
Your turn
shades
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
knuckles
snout
pincers
stalks
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Little rainbow fish 1. Press the fat part of your thumb into several colours of paint. Print it. 2. Add a tail with the fingertip. For the eye, dip the end of an old pencil in paint, then print it.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Little rainbow fish
1. Press the fat part of your thumb into several colours of paint.
Print it.
2. Add a tail with the fingertip.
For the eye, dip the end of an old pencil in paint,
then print it.
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Little rainbow fish 1. Press the fat part of your thumb into several colours of paint. Print it. 2. Add a tail with the fingertip. For the eye, dip the end of an old pencil in paint, then print it.
Explore
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. 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) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I will ‘look around’ the whole text. I can ‘find and take’ the first item. I will need paper so I can create my painting. It suggests that the paper is light-coloured so white, yellow or any other pale-coloured paper would work.
Reveal Explainer
A) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
Teach
From: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004. 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 equipment will you need to create these prints?
B) Put these steps in the correct order to make the seahorse.
A) When the sea is dry, pour two shades of paint. B) Create the background using foodwrap, paint and paper. C) Use a fingertip to create a curved tail. D) Add a snout and three fins. E) Use different parts of your hand to make the head and body.
Text mark
Find the answers
Text Mark Evidence you’ll need to be near a sink and have lots of paper towels
things to clean up
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence plastic food wrap
plastic food wrap
Text Mark Evidence - blue paint - bright colour - two shades of ready-mix or poster paint - two or three colours of paint - several colours of paint
paint
A) What equipment will you need to create these prints?
newspaper
Text Mark Evidence a pad of newspapers
Text Mark Evidence cardboard/a piece of thin cardboard
cardboard
Text Mark Evidence the end of an old pencil
pencil
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - the top of your fingers - your knuckles - your hand - your little finger - the same finger - a fingertip - the fat part of your thumb
parts of your hand
Acceptable Answers
B) Create the background using foodwrap, paint and paper.
A) When the sea is dry, pour two shades of paint.
B) Put these steps in the correct order to make the seahorse.
E) Use different parts of your hand to make the head and body.
D) Add a snout and three fins.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
C) Use a fingertip to create a curved tail.
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘shades’?
Sequence Me
Put these steps in the correct order to make a little rainbow fish:
A) Press your thumb on the paper to make the body.
B) Add an eye using paint on the end of an old pencil.
C) Dip your thumb in different colours of paint.
D) Make the tail using paint and your fingertip.
Click if correct
Check
Tick Me
Tick the answer which best completes the sentence:The most important thing to make rainbow fish is…
Tick one
A a ruler and a pencil.
B thin strips of cardboard.
Check
C many brightly coloured paints.
Click if correct
D a pad of newspaper.
Link Me
Link each item with the tool or bodypart used to make its print:
1 Seahorse’s snout
A edge of cardboard
2 Crab’s pincers
B little finger as far as the knuckle
Check
3 Fan fish’s tail
C V-shaped cardboard
Click if correct
4 Rainbow fish’s eye
D end of an old pencil
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
highlight what stands out.
Reveal
If the book is yours, underline or mark important parts.
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: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt © 2004 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.