Ready Steady Read Together
On the Move: 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?
Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
B) How has the poet’s family history influenced his thoughts on migrants?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
The Migrants in Me
Maybe I look as if
you could spin a story at me,
about how threatening
and dangerous migrants are,
as if neither I nor you would ever dream
of upping sticks and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a migrant.
As if neither I nor you
might suddenly find ourselves
in a wrong place at a wrong time
carrying the wrong passport,
with a face that doesn’t fit,
and needing to get out,
move, find a safe place because,
what, is it only mad, bad and sad people
who do that sort of thing,
and neither I nor you
are mad, bad or sad enough?
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
No, don’t think you can take
the migrants out of me.
The migrants in me tell me
about criss-crossing Europe;
about criss-crossing the Atlantic.
They warn me – they remind me –
of long, long hours at work benches.
They remind me of relatives,
who at one moment,
were safe as houses,
and the next,
had no houses to be safe in.
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
upping sticks
spin a story
migrants
a face that doesn't fit
criss-crossing
safe as houses
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. 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
spin a story
Explore
Find Read Talk
Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are, as if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
spin a story
migrants
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
upping sticks
a face that doesn't fit
criss-crossing
safe as houses
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
The Migrants in Me
Maybe I look as if
you could spin a story at me,
about how threatening
and dangerous migrants are,
as if neither I nor you would ever dream
of upping sticks and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a migrant.
As if neither I nor you
might suddenly find ourselves
in a wrong place at a wrong time
carrying the wrong passport,
with a face that doesn’t fit,
and needing to get out,
move, find a safe place because,
what, is it only mad, bad and sad people
who do that sort of thing,
and neither I nor you
are mad, bad or sad enough?
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
No, don’t think you can take
the migrants out of me.
The migrants in me tell me
about criss-crossing Europe;
about criss-crossing the Atlantic.
They warn me – they remind me –
of long, long hours at work benches.
Reveal Vocabulary
They remind me of relatives,
who at one moment,
were safe as houses,
and the next,
had no houses to be safe in.
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
As if neither I nor you would ever dream
of upping sticks and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a migrant.
As if neither I nor you
might suddenly find ourselves
in a wrong place at a wrong time
carrying the wrong passport,
with a face that doesn’t fit,
and needing to get out,
move, find a safe place...
What did you notice?
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
As if neither I nor you would ever dream
of upping sticks and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a migrant.
As if neither I nor you
might suddenly find ourselves
in a wrong place at a wrong time
carrying the wrong passport,
with a face that doesn’t fit,
and needing to get out,
move, find a safe place...
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
As if neither I nor you would ever dream
of upping sticks and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a migrant.
As if neither I nor you
might suddenly find ourselves
in a wrong place at a wrong time
carrying the wrong passport,
with a face that doesn’t fit,
and needing to get out,
move, find a safe place...
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Maybe I look as if
you could spin a story at me,
about how threatening
and dangerous migrants are,
as if neither I nor you would ever dream
of upping sticks and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a migrant.
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
Reveal Explainer
The words ‘spin a story’ shows that the poet is aware of stereotypes and misconceptions about migrants. It shows that he knows that these ideas are usually untrue. That migrants are ordinary people, like you and me, but certain circumstances have forced them to move.
Teach
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. 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 poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
B) How has the poet’s family history influenced his thoughts on migrants?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence as if I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant
anyone could become a migrant
Text Mark Evidence as if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves…carrying the wrong passport, with a face that doesn’t fit and needing to get out
discrimination can affect anyone
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
Text Mark Evidence as if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves in a wrong place at a wrong time
circumstances can change suddenly
Text Mark Evidence - needing to get out, move, find a safe place - relatives, who at one moment, were safe as houses, and the next, had no houses to be safe in
any location could suddenly become unsafe
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence what, is it only mad, bad and sad people who do that sort of thing, and neither I nor you are mad, bad or sad enough
anyone could suddenly be forced to migrate
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence no, don’t think you can take the migrants out of me
personal connection or family history of migration
B) How has the poet’s family history influenced his thoughts on migrants?
Text Mark Evidence - the migrants in me tell me about criss-crossing Europe…about criss-crossing the Atlantic - they (the migrants in me) warn me – they remind me – of long, long hours at workbenches
migrating family members have endured hardship
Text Mark Evidence they (the migrants in me) remind me of relatives, who at one moment, were safe as houses, and the next, had no houses to be safe in
family members have experienced loss of safety
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘criss-crossing’?
True or False?
The poet believes migrants are threatening and dangerous.
True
False
Fill the Gaps
upping sticks
spin a story
migrant
Discuss then check
Maybe I look as if
you could at me,
about how threatening
and dangerous migrants are,
as if neither I nor you would ever dream
of and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a .
Click if correct
Link Me
Link each poetic feature with its example from the poem:
A simile
1 spin a story
2 in a wrong place at a wrong time carrying the wrong passport
B alliteration
Check
3 don’t think you can take the migrants outof me
C metaphor
Click if correct
D repetition
4 safe as houses
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
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: On the Move: Poems about Migration by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
spin a story
upping sticks
migrant
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Ready Steady Read Together
On the Move: 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?
Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
B) How has the poet’s family history influenced his thoughts on migrants?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
The Migrants in Me
Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are, as if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant. As if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves in a wrong place at a wrong time carrying the wrong passport, with a face that doesn’t fit, and needing to get out, move, find a safe place because, what, is it only mad, bad and sad people who do that sort of thing, and neither I nor you are mad, bad or sad enough?
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
No, don’t think you can take the migrants out of me.
The migrants in me tell me about criss-crossing Europe; about criss-crossing the Atlantic. They warn me – they remind me – of long, long hours at work benches.
They remind me of relatives, who at one moment, were safe as houses, and the next, had no houses to be safe in.
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
upping sticks
spin a story
migrants
a face that doesn't fit
criss-crossing
safe as houses
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. 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
spin a story
Explore
Find Read Talk
Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are, as if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
spin a story
migrants
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
upping sticks
a face that doesn't fit
criss-crossing
safe as houses
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
The Migrants in Me
Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are, as if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant. As if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves in a wrong place at a wrong time carrying the wrong passport, with a face that doesn’t fit, and needing to get out, move, find a safe place because, what, is it only mad, bad and sad people who do that sort of thing, and neither I nor you are mad, bad or sad enough?
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
No, don’t think you can take the migrants out of me.
The migrants in me tell me about criss-crossing Europe; about criss-crossing the Atlantic. They warn me – they remind me – of long, long hours at work benches.
Reveal Vocabulary
They remind me of relatives, who at one moment, were safe as houses, and the next, had no houses to be safe in.
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
As if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant. As if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves in a wrong place at a wrong time carrying the wrong passport, with a face that doesn’t fit, and needing to get out, move, find a safe place...
What did you notice?
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
As if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else
and being, you know, a migrant.
As if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves in a wrong place at a wrong time
carrying the wrong passport, with a face that doesn’t fit,
and needing to get out, move, find a safe place...
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
As if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant. As if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves in a wrong place at a wrong time carrying the wrong passport, with a face that doesn’t fit, and needing to get out, move, find a safe place...
Explore
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are, as if neither I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant.
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
Reveal Explainer
The words ‘spin a story’ shows that the poet is aware of stereotypes and misconceptions about migrants. It shows that he knows that these ideas are usually untrue. That migrants are ordinary people, like you and me, but certain circumstances have forced them to move.
Teach
From: On the Move by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020. 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 poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
B) How has the poet’s family history influenced his thoughts on migrants?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence as if I nor you would ever dream of upping sticks and living somewhere else and being, you know, a migrant
anyone could become a migrant
Text Mark Evidence as if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves…carrying the wrong passport, with a face that doesn’t fit and needing to get out
discrimination can affect anyone
A) How does the poem encourage readers to empathise with migrants?
Text Mark Evidence as if neither I nor you might suddenly find ourselves in a wrong place at a wrong time
circumstances can change suddenly
Text Mark Evidence - needing to get out, move, find a safe place - relatives, who at one moment, were safe as houses, and the next, had no houses to be safe in
any location could suddenly become unsafe
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence what, is it only mad, bad and sad people who do that sort of thing, and neither I nor you are mad, bad or sad enough
anyone could suddenly be forced to migrate
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence no, don’t think you can take the migrants out of me
personal connection or family history of migration
B) How has the poet’s family history influenced his thoughts on migrants?
Text Mark Evidence - the migrants in me tell me about criss-crossing Europe…about criss-crossing the Atlantic - they (the migrants in me) warn me – they remind me – of long, long hours at workbenches
migrating family members have endured hardship
Text Mark Evidence they (the migrants in me) remind me of relatives, who at one moment, were safe as houses, and the next, had no houses to be safe in
family members have experienced loss of safety
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘criss-crossing’?
True or False?
The poet believes migrants are threatening and dangerous.
True
False
Fill the Gaps
upping sticks
spin a story
migrant
Discuss then check
Maybe I look as if you could at me, about how threatening and dangerous migrants are, as if neither I nor you would ever dream of and living somewhere else and being, you know, a .
Click if correct
Link Me
Link each poetic feature with its example from the poem:
A simile
1 spin a story
2 in a wrong place at a wrong time carrying the wrong passport
B alliteration
Check
3 don’t think you can take the migrants outof me
C metaphor
Click if correct
D repetition
4 safe as houses
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
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: On the Move: Poems about Migration by Michael Wayne Rosen © 2020 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
spin a story
upping sticks
migrant