Ready Steady Read Together
Where Zebras Go: Fiction 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?
No one can make a tiger by collecting darkness, painting his stripes branched like ebony…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
B) How does the poet make the tiger sound unique and graceful?
C) What does the poem suggest about the tiger’s habitat?
Explore
Let me read today's text
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From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
amber
crescents
threading
stealthy
unquiet
dark magic
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From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. 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
amber
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
amber
threading
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
crescents
stealthy
unquiet
dark magic
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
None can make his thunder voice, or his spirit, fearless as his stealthy heart, nor heavy footfall light on unbroken soil, unsnapped leaf, to leave untouched, the shrinking forest, green, unquiet. No one can make a tiger, no one can draw him, no one can write him, no dark magic gives him life.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
None can make his thunder voice,
or his spirit, fearless as his stealthy heart,
nor heavy footfall light on unbroken soil,
unsnapped leaf, to leave untouched, the shrinking forest, green, unquiet.
No one can make a tiger,
no one can draw him,
no one can write him,
no dark magic gives him life.
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
None can make his thunder voice, or his spirit, fearless as his stealthy heart, nor heavy footfall light on unbroken soil, unsnapped leaf, to leave untouched, the shrinking forest, green, unquiet. No one can make a tiger, no one can draw him, no one can write him, no dark magic gives him life.
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
No one can make a tiger by collecting darkness,
painting his stripes branched like ebony,
or find his eyes in old boxes of amber beads,
by threading them on cut crescents of night.
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
Reveal Explainer
The poet is comparing the tiger’s black stripes to ‘branched like ebony’, suggesting they are dark, irregular and connected like tree branches. The poet uses visual images, such as ‘collecting darkness’ and ‘painting his stripes’, to show that, even with these efforts, no one can truly create a tiger.
Teach
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. 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) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
B) How does the poet make the tiger sound unique and graceful?
C) What does the poem suggest about the tiger’s habitat?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence find his eyes in old boxes of amber beads threading them
eyes
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
Text Mark Evidence cut crescents of night
stripes
Text Mark Evidence his thunder voice
roar
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence fearless as his stealthy heart
spirit or wild nature
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence nor heavy footfall on unbroken soil, unsnapped leaf to leave untouched
walks lightly despite its size
B) How does the poet make the tiger sound unique and graceful?
Text Mark Evidence - no one can make a tiger - no one can draw him - no one can write him - no dark magic gives him life
only nature can recreate tigers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest
habitat is decreasing or under threat
C) What does the poem suggest about the tiger’s habitat?
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest, green, unquiet
restless or full of movement
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest, green, unquiet
animals are anxious or uneasy
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest, green, unquiet
full of plant life
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘amber’?
Which One's Right?
None can make his thunder voice…
This suggests that the tiger’s roar is…
B as commonas storms
A magical and surprising
D impressive and noticeable
C loud and powerful
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A curved, moonlike shapes
1 amber
B quietly and carefully to avoid being noticed
2 threading
C passing string through holes
Check
3 crescents
Click if correct
D yellow-orange resin
4 stealthy
Tick Me
Which statement best summarises the poem?
Tick one:
A Stories, poems and art cannot capture the tiger’s unique wild nature.
B Humans should try to recreate tigers in any way they can.
Check
C A tiger moves gracefully and silently through its natural habitat.
Click if correct
D Artists should use paints as black as night to paint a tiger’s stripes.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
play with words.
Reveal
Create your own rhymes or fun combinations of words.
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: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Where Zebras Go: Fiction 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?
No one can make a tiger by collecting darkness, painting his stripes branched like ebony…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
B) How does the poet make the tiger sound unique and graceful?
C) What does the poem suggest about the tiger’s habitat?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
amber
crescents
threading
stealthy
unquiet
dark magic
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. 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
amber
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
amber
threading
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
crescents
stealthy
unquiet
dark magic
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
None can make his thunder voice, or his spirit, fearless as his stealthy heart, nor heavy footfall light on unbroken soil, unsnapped leaf, to leave untouched, the shrinking forest, green, unquiet. No one can make a tiger, no one can draw him, no one can write him, no dark magic gives him life.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
None can make his thunder voice,
or his spirit, fearless as his stealthy heart,
nor heavy footfall light on unbroken soil,
unsnapped leaf, to leave untouched, the shrinking forest, green, unquiet.
No one can make a tiger,
no one can draw him,
no one can write him,
no dark magic gives him life.
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
None can make his thunder voice, or his spirit, fearless as his stealthy heart, nor heavy footfall light on unbroken soil, unsnapped leaf, to leave untouched, the shrinking forest, green, unquiet. No one can make a tiger, no one can draw him, no one can write him, no dark magic gives him life.
Explore
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
No one can make a tiger by collecting darkness, painting his stripes branched like ebony, or find his eyes in old boxes of amber beads, by threading them on cut crescents of night.
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
Reveal Explainer
The poet is comparing the tiger’s black stripes to ‘branched like ebony’, suggesting they are dark, irregular and connected like tree branches. The poet uses visual images, such as ‘collecting darkness’ and ‘painting his stripes’, to show that, even with these efforts, no one can truly create a tiger.
Teach
From: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017. 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) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
B) How does the poet make the tiger sound unique and graceful?
C) What does the poem suggest about the tiger’s habitat?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence find his eyes in old boxes of amber beads threading them
eyes
A) How does the poet use comparisons to describe the tiger’s features?
Text Mark Evidence cut crescents of night
stripes
Text Mark Evidence his thunder voice
roar
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence fearless as his stealthy heart
spirit or wild nature
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence nor heavy footfall on unbroken soil, unsnapped leaf to leave untouched
walks lightly despite its size
B) How does the poet make the tiger sound unique and graceful?
Text Mark Evidence - no one can make a tiger - no one can draw him - no one can write him - no dark magic gives him life
only nature can recreate tigers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest
habitat is decreasing or under threat
C) What does the poem suggest about the tiger’s habitat?
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest, green, unquiet
restless or full of movement
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest, green, unquiet
animals are anxious or uneasy
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence the shrinking forest, green, unquiet
full of plant life
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘amber’?
Which One's Right?
None can make his thunder voice… This suggests that the tiger’s roar is…
B as commonas storms
A magical and surprising
D impressive and noticeable
C loud and powerful
Link Me
Link each word with its correct definition:
A curved, moonlike shapes
1 amber
B quietly and carefully to avoid being noticed
2 threading
C passing string through holes
Check
3 crescents
Click if correct
D yellow-orange resin
4 stealthy
Tick Me
Which statement best summarises the poem?
Tick one:
A Stories, poems and art cannot capture the tiger’s unique wild nature.
B Humans should try to recreate tigers in any way they can.
Check
C A tiger moves gracefully and silently through its natural habitat.
Click if correct
D Artists should use paints as black as night to paint a tiger’s stripes.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
play with words.
Reveal
Create your own rhymes or fun combinations of words.
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: Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson © 2017 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.