Ready Steady Read Together
Words Can Fly: Poetry 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?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow – golden, light and bright…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Complete the sentences by linking the start to the correct ending.
B) If happiness was a feeling, what would it feel like?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
What is happy?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow
if happy was a taste
I think it would be sweet
and if it had a smell
it would not be stinky feet
no, I think it would be cake
or fish and chips outside
waiting at the fair
for a rollercoaster ride
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
if happy was a place
it would be my bed at night
tucked up safe and warm
with my toys there by my side
and happy feels like friends
coming to my house to play
on summer days with water guns
and homework out the way
but sometimes it is simpler
like a cuddle with a cat
on days when nothing happens
but you’re quite okay with that
happy is a feeling
and I know it when it’s here
because everything feels yellow
and I smile from ear to ear.
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
would
gold
water
every
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
fellow
tucked up
fair
out the way
simpler
smile from ear to ear
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. 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
fellow
Explore
Find Read Talk
What is happy?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
fellow
Your turn
fair
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
tucked up
out the way
simpler
smile from ear to ear
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
What is happy?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow
if happy was a taste
I think it would be sweet
and if it had a smell
it would not be stinky feet
no, I think it would be cake
or fish and chips outside
waiting at the fair
for a rollercoaster ride
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
if happy was a place
it would be my bed at night
tucked up safe and warm
with my toys there by my side
Reveal Vocabulary
and happy feels like friends
coming to my house to play
on summer days with water guns
and homework out the way
but sometimes it is simpler
like a cuddle with a cat
on days when nothing happens
but you’re quite okay with that
happy is a feeling
and I know it when it’s here
because everything feels yellow
and I smile from ear to ear.
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
if happy was a taste
I think it would be sweet
and if it had a smell
it would not be stinky feet no, I think it would be cake or fish and chips outside waiting at the fair for a rollercoaster ride
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
if happy was a taste
I think it would be sweet
and if it had a smell
it would not be stinky feet
no, I think it would be cake
or fish and chips outside
waiting at the fair
for a rollercoaster ride
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
if happy was a taste
I think it would be sweet
and if it had a smell
it would not be stinky feet no, I think it would be cake or fish and chips outside waiting at the fair for a rollercoaster ride
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. 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) Complete the sentences by matching the start to the correct ending.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
If happy was a colour
I think it would be yellow
golden, light and bright
a shiny little fellow
Reveal: Sentence Matching
A) Complete the sentences by matching the start to the correct ending.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the word colour. Then, I can ‘find and take’ the answer: If happy was a colour, it would be shiny, golden and bright.
Teach
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. 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) Complete the sentences by linking the start to the correct ending.
B) If happiness was a feeling, what would it feel like?
If happy was a taste,
it would be a safe warm bed full of toys.
If happy was a colour,
it would be sweet like cake.
If happy was a smell,
it would be shiny, golden and bright.
If happy was a place,
it would be fish and chips, not feet.
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click on sentence starter to match with the endings
A) Complete the sentences by linking the start to the correct ending.
If happy was a taste,
it would be a safe warm bed full of toys.
If happy was a colour,
it would be sweet like cake.
If happy was a smell,
it would be shiny, golden and bright.
If happy was a place,
it would be fish and chips, not feet.
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence friends coming to my house to play
B) If happiness was a feeling, what would it feel like?
Text Mark Evidence a cuddle with a cat
Text Mark Evidence everything feels yellow
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘fair’?
Find Me
Find the word which means‘little friend or pal’.
If happy was a colour
I think it would be yellow
golden, light and bright
a shiny little fellow…
Discuss then check
fellow
Which One's Right?
If happy was a place
it would be my bed at night
tucked up safe and warm
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘tucked up’?
A tight
B snug
D folded
C full
True or False?
The poet thinks happiness is doing homework.
True
False
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
celebrate your reading.
Reveal
Make a list of the books you've read and celebrate milestones.
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: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
If happy was a colour,
it would be sweet like cake.
If happy was a taste,
it would be a safe warm bed full of toys.
If happy was a smell,
it would be shiny, golden and bright.
If happy was a place,
it would be fish and chips, not feet.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Words Can Fly: Poetry 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?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow – golden, light and bright…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Complete the sentences by linking the start to the correct ending.
B) If happiness was a feeling, what would it feel like?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
What is happy?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow
if happy was a taste I think it would be sweet and if it had a smell it would not be stinky feet
no, I think it would be cake or fish and chips outside waiting at the fair for a rollercoaster ride
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
if happy was a place it would be my bed at night tucked up safe and warm with my toys there by my side
and happy feels like friends coming to my house to play on summer days with water guns and homework out the way
but sometimes it is simpler like a cuddle with a cat on days when nothing happens but you’re quite okay with that
happy is a feeling and I know it when it’s here because everything feels yellow and I smile from ear to ear.
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
would
gold
water
every
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
fellow
tucked up
fair
out the way
simpler
smile from ear to ear
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. 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
fellow
Explore
Find Read Talk
What is happy?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
fellow
Your turn
fair
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
tucked up
out the way
simpler
smile from ear to ear
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
What is happy?
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow
if happy was a taste I think it would be sweet and if it had a smell it would not be stinky feet
no, I think it would be cake or fish and chips outside waiting at the fair for a rollercoaster ride
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
if happy was a place it would be my bed at night tucked up safe and warm with my toys there by my side
Reveal Vocabulary
and happy feels like friends coming to my house to play on summer days with water guns and homework out the way
but sometimes it is simpler like a cuddle with a cat on days when nothing happens but you’re quite okay with that
happy is a feeling and I know it when it’s here because everything feels yellow and I smile from ear to ear.
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
if happy was a taste I think it would be sweet and if it had a smell it would not be stinky feet no, I think it would be cake or fish and chips outside waiting at the fair for a rollercoaster ride
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
if happy was a taste I think it would be sweet
and if it had a smell it would not be stinky feet
no, I think it would be cake
or fish and chips outside
waiting at the fair for a rollercoaster ride
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
if happy was a taste I think it would be sweet and if it had a smell it would not be stinky feet no, I think it would be cake or fish and chips outside waiting at the fair for a rollercoaster ride
Explore
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. 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) Complete the sentences by matching the start to the correct ending.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow
Reveal: Sentence Matching
A) Complete the sentences by matching the start to the correct ending.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the word colour. Then, I can ‘find and take’ the answer: If happy was a colour, it would be shiny, golden and bright.
Teach
From: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025. 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) Complete the sentences by linking the start to the correct ending.
B) If happiness was a feeling, what would it feel like?
If happy was a taste,
it would be a safe warm bed full of toys.
If happy was a colour,
it would be sweet like cake.
If happy was a smell,
it would be shiny, golden and bright.
If happy was a place,
it would be fish and chips, not feet.
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click on sentence starter to match with the endings
A) Complete the sentences by linking the start to the correct ending.
If happy was a taste,
it would be a safe warm bed full of toys.
If happy was a colour,
it would be sweet like cake.
If happy was a smell,
it would be shiny, golden and bright.
If happy was a place,
it would be fish and chips, not feet.
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence friends coming to my house to play
B) If happiness was a feeling, what would it feel like?
Text Mark Evidence a cuddle with a cat
Text Mark Evidence everything feels yellow
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘fair’?
Find Me
Find the word which means‘little friend or pal’.
If happy was a colour I think it would be yellow golden, light and bright a shiny little fellow…
Discuss then check
fellow
Which One's Right?
If happy was a place it would be my bed at night tucked up safe and warm
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘tucked up’?
A tight
B snug
D folded
C full
True or False?
The poet thinks happiness is doing homework.
True
False
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
celebrate your reading.
Reveal
Make a list of the books you've read and celebrate milestones.
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: Words Can Fly by Donna Ashworth © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
If happy was a colour,
it would be sweet like cake.
If happy was a taste,
it would be a safe warm bed full of toys.
If happy was a smell,
it would be shiny, golden and bright.
If happy was a place,
it would be fish and chips, not feet.