Ready Steady Read Together
An Anthology of Intriguing Animals: Non-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?
Each species has unique survival strategies and plays an important role in maintaining balance within their underwater ecosystems.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
B) How do piranhas communicate with each other?
C) How does the clownfish stay safe?
Explore
Let me read today's text
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Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
aquatic environments
bloodthirsty
lurk
coral reefs
anemone
finger-like tentacles
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From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. 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
aquatic environment
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
aquatic environments
lurk
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
bloodthirsty
coral reefs
anemone
finger-like tentacles
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Explore
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
River creatures watch out! A piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth and they snap shut with massive force. If a piranha was the same size as a T Rex, guess which would have the strongest bite? The piranha! These fierce and fast little fish lurk in South American rivers.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
River creatures watch out!
A piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth and they snap shut with massive force.
If a piranha was the same size as a T Rex, guess which would have the strongest bite?
The piranha! These fierce and fast little fish lurk in South American rivers.
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
River creatures watch out! A piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth and they snap shut with massive force. If a piranha was the same size as a T Rex, guess which would have the strongest bite? The piranha! These fierce and fast little fish lurk in South American rivers.
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Read Between the Lines
Be a detective and look for clues!
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
Reveal Explainer
When I look for how a piranha eats, I scan the text and find the sentence about its mouth. The text tells me “a piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth”. Those words help me understand how it bites and eats its food.
Teach
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. 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 features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
B) How do piranhas communicate with each other?
C) How does the clownfish stay safe?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence their (teeth) snap shut with massive force
strong jaws
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
Text Mark Evidence it (piranha) bites off chunks of flesh
sharp teeth for biting
Text Mark Evidence gobbles down smaller prey whole
able to swallow fish
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) How do piranhas communicate with each other?
Text Mark Evidence - piranhas bark like dogs - the strange sound doesn't come from their mouth, but from deep inside their belly
use their belly to make sounds
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the anemone protects its fish friends from bigger fish
protected by the anemone
C) How does the clownfish stay safe?
Text Mark Evidence - anemone tentacles have painful stingers that most fish don’t like to touch - clownfish are covered in thicker slime than other kinds of fish - and can safely snuggle among the stings without being hurt
protected from stingers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
True or False?
Piranhas live on colourful coral reefs and hide inside sea anemones to stay safe.
True
False
Which One's Right?
Which best describes what an anemone looks like?
A) a dog
B) a plant
D) a tentacle
C) a T-Rex
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘lurk’?
Fill the Gaps
clean
anenome
work
An looks like a bit like a plant, butit is an animal too, with many finger-like tentacles. It loves having clownfish around, because the fish it and fan fresh water over it. It even feeds on clownfish poo! However, the clownfish don't for free.
Click if correct
Discuss then check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
learn new words.
Reveal
Keep a notebook to write down and remember new 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 and adapted for accessibility from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
An Anthology of Intriguing Animals: Non-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?
Each species has unique survival strategies and plays an important role in maintaining balance within their underwater ecosystems.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
B) How do piranhas communicate with each other?
C) How does the clownfish stay safe?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
aquatic environments
bloodthirsty
lurk
coral reefs
anemone
finger-like tentacles
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. 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
aquatic environment
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
aquatic environments
lurk
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
bloodthirsty
coral reefs
anemone
finger-like tentacles
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Explore
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
River creatures watch out! A piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth and they snap shut with massive force. If a piranha was the same size as a T Rex, guess which would have the strongest bite? The piranha! These fierce and fast little fish lurk in South American rivers.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
River creatures watch out!
A piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth and they snap shut with massive force.
If a piranha was the same size as a T Rex, guess which would have the strongest bite?
The piranha! These fierce and fast little fish lurk in South American rivers.
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
River creatures watch out! A piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth and they snap shut with massive force. If a piranha was the same size as a T Rex, guess which would have the strongest bite? The piranha! These fierce and fast little fish lurk in South American rivers.
Explore
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Read Between the Lines
Be a detective and look for clues!
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
Reveal Explainer
When I look for how a piranha eats, I scan the text and find the sentence about its mouth. The text tells me “a piranha’s jaws are full of sharp white teeth”. Those words help me understand how it bites and eats its food.
Teach
From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. 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 features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
B) How do piranhas communicate with each other?
C) How does the clownfish stay safe?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence their (teeth) snap shut with massive force
strong jaws
A) What features or skills does a piranha have to help it catch food?
Text Mark Evidence it (piranha) bites off chunks of flesh
sharp teeth for biting
Text Mark Evidence gobbles down smaller prey whole
able to swallow fish
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) How do piranhas communicate with each other?
Text Mark Evidence - piranhas bark like dogs - the strange sound doesn't come from their mouth, but from deep inside their belly
use their belly to make sounds
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the anemone protects its fish friends from bigger fish
protected by the anemone
C) How does the clownfish stay safe?
Text Mark Evidence - anemone tentacles have painful stingers that most fish don’t like to touch - clownfish are covered in thicker slime than other kinds of fish - and can safely snuggle among the stings without being hurt
protected from stingers
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
True or False?
Piranhas live on colourful coral reefs and hide inside sea anemones to stay safe.
True
False
Which One's Right?
Which best describes what an anemone looks like?
A) a dog
B) a plant
D) a tentacle
C) a T-Rex
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘lurk’?
Fill the Gaps
clean
anenome
work
An looks like a bit like a plant, butit is an animal too, with many finger-like tentacles. It loves having clownfish around, because the fish it and fan fresh water over it. It even feeds on clownfish poo! However, the clownfish don't for free.
Click if correct
Discuss then check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
learn new words.
Reveal
Keep a notebook to write down and remember new 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 and adapted for accessibility from: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
anenome
clean
work