Ready Steady Read Together
An Anthology of Intriguing Animals: Non-Fiction 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 you think it looks like a weird tadpole that’s because it is.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What makes a starfish an unusual animal?
B) What can you infer about why axolotls are described as having a “superpower”?
C) What special feature helps starfish move and catch their food?
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!
topsy-turvy
digests
prey
Aztec
amphibians
frilly
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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
topsy-turvy
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.
topsy-turvy
Your turn
prey
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
digests
Aztec
amphibians
frilly
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
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
You are looking at one of the strangest animals on Earth. It's called an “ax-suh-lot-uhl.” The name comes from an old Aztec word meaning “water servant.” If you think it looks like a weird tadpole that's because it is. Like frogs, axolotls are amphibians, so they start life in water.
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
You are looking at one of the strangest animals on Earth.
It's called an “ax-suh-lot-uhl.”
The name comes from an old Aztec word meaning “water servant.”
If you think it looks like a weird tadpole that's because it is.
Like frogs, axolotls are amphibians, so they start life in water.
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
You are looking at one of the strangest animals on Earth. It's called an “ax-suh-lot-uhl.” The name comes from an old Aztec word meaning “water servant.” If you think it looks like a weird tadpole that's because it is. Like frogs, axolotls are amphibians, so they start life in water.
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 makes starfish an unusual animal?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Reveal Explainer
Starfish are unusual because they do not have a head. Instead of having eyes on a head like most animals, their eyes are at the end of their arms. This helps them see all around them.
A) What makes starfish an unusual animal?
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 makes a starfish an unusual animal?
B) What can you infer about why axolotls are described as having a “superpower”?
C) What special feature helps starfish move and catch their food?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Text Mark Evidence somehow they move around without a brain or a heart
do not have a brain / heart
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence instead of blood they are full of seawater
do not have blood
Text Mark Evidence if a starfish loses an arm, it grows back
can grow back lost arms
A) What makes a starfish an unusual animal?
Text Mark Evidence some starfish can regrow their whole body from just one arm
can grow back their whole body
Text Mark Evidence under each of a starfish’s arms are hundreds of sticky feet
have sticky feet on under their arms
Text Mark Evidence then pushes its stretchy stomach out of its body, digests the meal, and sucks it back in
can push its stomach out of its body and pull it back in
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence most starfish have 5 arms, but some have 10, 20, or even 50
some starfish have multiple arms
Acceptable Answers
B) What can you infer about why axolotls are described as having a “superpower”?
Text Mark Evidence - if they get hurt, they have an amazing superpower – they can grow new body parts - they can replace a leg, eye, lung tail, or part of a heart!
they can grow back body parts like when they get hurt
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What special feature helps starfish move and catch their food?
Text Mark Evidence - under each of a starfish’s arms are hundreds of sticky feet - they grab prey and carry it to the mouth
sticky feet under their arms that help them grab prey and move it to their mouth
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with its correct meaning:
A having wavy or ruffled edges that stick out
1 prey
B breaks food down inside the body so it can be used for energy
2 digests
Check
Click if correct
C an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
3 amphibians
D animals that start life in water and can live on land and in water
4 frilly
Which One's Right?
Which best describes a starfish’s body?
B) it has blood
A) it has no arms
C) it has no mouth
D) it has no head
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘amphibian’?
True or False?
An axolotl can grow new body parts.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create a reading nook.
Reveal
Set up a cozy space for reading with pillows and good lighting.
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 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 you think it looks like a weird tadpole that’s because it is.
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 makes a starfish an unusual animal?
B) What can you infer about why axolotls are described as having a “superpower”?
C) What special feature helps starfish move and catch their food?
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!
topsy-turvy
digests
prey
Aztec
amphibians
frilly
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
topsy-turvy
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.
topsy-turvy
Your turn
prey
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
digests
Aztec
amphibians
frilly
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
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
You are looking at one of the strangest animals on Earth. It's called an “ax-suh-lot-uhl.” The name comes from an old Aztec word meaning “water servant.” If you think it looks like a weird tadpole that's because it is. Like frogs, axolotls are amphibians, so they start life in water.
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
You are looking at one of the strangest animals on Earth.
It's called an “ax-suh-lot-uhl.”
The name comes from an old Aztec word meaning “water servant.”
If you think it looks like a weird tadpole that's because it is.
Like frogs, axolotls are amphibians, so they start life in water.
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
You are looking at one of the strangest animals on Earth. It's called an “ax-suh-lot-uhl.” The name comes from an old Aztec word meaning “water servant.” If you think it looks like a weird tadpole that's because it is. Like frogs, axolotls are amphibians, so they start life in water.
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 makes starfish an unusual animal?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Reveal Explainer
Starfish are unusual because they do not have a head. Instead of having eyes on a head like most animals, their eyes are at the end of their arms. This helps them see all around them.
A) What makes starfish an unusual animal?
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 makes a starfish an unusual animal?
B) What can you infer about why axolotls are described as having a “superpower”?
C) What special feature helps starfish move and catch their food?
Text mark
Find the answers
Explore
Text Mark Evidence somehow they move around without a brain or a heart
do not have a brain / heart
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence instead of blood they are full of seawater
do not have blood
Text Mark Evidence if a starfish loses an arm, it grows back
can grow back lost arms
A) What makes a starfish an unusual animal?
Text Mark Evidence some starfish can regrow their whole body from just one arm
can grow back their whole body
Text Mark Evidence under each of a starfish’s arms are hundreds of sticky feet
have sticky feet on under their arms
Text Mark Evidence then pushes its stretchy stomach out of its body, digests the meal, and sucks it back in
can push its stomach out of its body and pull it back in
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence most starfish have 5 arms, but some have 10, 20, or even 50
some starfish have multiple arms
Acceptable Answers
B) What can you infer about why axolotls are described as having a “superpower”?
Text Mark Evidence - if they get hurt, they have an amazing superpower – they can grow new body parts - they can replace a leg, eye, lung tail, or part of a heart!
they can grow back body parts like when they get hurt
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What special feature helps starfish move and catch their food?
Text Mark Evidence - under each of a starfish’s arms are hundreds of sticky feet - they grab prey and carry it to the mouth
sticky feet under their arms that help them grab prey and move it to their mouth
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with its correct meaning:
A having wavy or ruffled edges that stick out
1 prey
B breaks food down inside the body so it can be used for energy
2 digests
Check
Click if correct
C an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
3 amphibians
D animals that start life in water and can live on land and in water
4 frilly
Which One's Right?
Which best describes a starfish’s body?
B) it has blood
A) it has no arms
C) it has no mouth
D) it has no head
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘amphibian’?
True or False?
An axolotl can grow new body parts.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create a reading nook.
Reveal
Set up a cozy space for reading with pillows and good lighting.
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.