Ready Steady Read Together
A First Book of Nature: 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?
So many little birds flying altogether; Hundreds, thousands maybe.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
B) What do starlings do at bedtime?
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Let me read today's text
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Starlings
So many little birds flying altogether;
hundreds, thousands maybe,
making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky. They look like smoke, or curtains rippling in the breeze.
Every turn and swoop they make together –
as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
All at once, it’s their bedtime.
Down they fly, a fat, dark rope of birds,
disappearing downwards into their roost.
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
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many
every
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Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
making waves
spirals
arcs
swoop
downwards
roost
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From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. 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
making waves
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Find Read Talk
So many little birds flying altogether;
hundreds, thousands maybe,
making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
making waves
Your turn
arcs
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
spirals
swoop
downwards
roost
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Starlings
So many little birds flying altogether;
hundreds, thousands maybe,
making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky. They look like smoke, or curtains rippling in the breeze.
Every turn and swoop they make together –
as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
All at once, it’s their bedtime.
Down they fly, a fat, dark rope of birds,
disappearing downwards into their roost.
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
They look like smoke, or curtains ripping in the breeze. Every turn and swoop they make together – as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
They look like smoke, or curtains ripping in the breeze.
Every turn and swoop they make together –
as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
They look like smoke, or curtains ripping in the breeze. Every turn and swoop they make together – as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. 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) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
So many little birds flying altogether;
hundreds, thousands maybe,
making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky.
Reveal: Words & Phrases
A) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
I will 'look around' for key words that describe how the bird moves. I can 'find and take' the first answer 'making waves' this means moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean. I can match 1 with C.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. 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) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
B) What do starlings do at bedtime?
1 making waves
A Flying in a big, curved shape like a rainbow.
2 making arcs
B Flying quickly down or up like when you dive for fun.
3 spirals
C Moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean.
4 swoop
D Flying around in circles that go up or down like a twirly slide
Text mark
Find the answers
Acceptable Answers
A) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
Click on each phrase to link with the correct answer
1 making waves
A Flying in a big, curved shape like a rainbow.
2 making arcs
B Flying quickly down or up like when you dive for fun.
3 spirals
C Moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean.
4 swoop
D Flying around in circles that go up or down like a twirly slide
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence down they fly
they fly together
B) What do starlings do at bedtime?
Text Mark Evidence disappearing downwards
they vanish
Text Mark Evidence into their roost
they go to their homes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘curtain rippling’?
True or False?
Starlings fly to their home at bedtime.
False
True
Fill the Gaps
rippling
dance
swoop
They look like smoke, or curtains inin the breeze.
Every turn and they make together –
as if their flying was a that they all knew by heart.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) They fly like a dance they know by heart.
B) They disappear downwards into their roosts.
C) Thousands of them fly together.
D) At bed time they fly downwards.
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
notice the sounds.
Reveal
Listen for rhymes, alliteration and other sound effects.
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: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
1 making waves
A Flying in a big, curved shape like a rainbow.
2 making arcs
B Flying quickly down or up like when you dive for fun.
3 spirals
C Moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean.
4 swoop
D Flying around in circles that go up or down like a twirly slide
ripping
swoop
dance
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Ready Steady Read Together
A First Book of Nature: 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?
So many little birds flying altogether; Hundreds, thousands maybe.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
B) What do starlings do at bedtime?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Starlings
So many little birds flying altogether; hundreds, thousands maybe, making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky. They look like smoke, or curtains rippling in the breeze. Every turn and swoop they make together – as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart. All at once, it’s their bedtime. Down they fly, a fat, dark rope of birds, disappearing downwards into their roost.
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
many
every
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
making waves
spirals
arcs
swoop
downwards
roost
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. 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
making waves
Explore
Find Read Talk
So many little birds flying altogether; hundreds, thousands maybe, making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
making waves
Your turn
arcs
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
spirals
swoop
downwards
roost
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Starlings
So many little birds flying altogether; hundreds, thousands maybe, making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky. They look like smoke, or curtains rippling in the breeze. Every turn and swoop they make together – as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart. All at once, it’s their bedtime. Down they fly, a fat, dark rope of birds, disappearing downwards into their roost.
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
They look like smoke, or curtains ripping in the breeze. Every turn and swoop they make together – as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
They look like smoke, or curtains ripping in the breeze.
Every turn and swoop they make together –
as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
They look like smoke, or curtains ripping in the breeze. Every turn and swoop they make together – as if their flying was a dance that they all knew by heart.
Explore
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. 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) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
So many little birds flying altogether; hundreds, thousands maybe, making waves and arcs and spirals in the sunset sky.
Reveal: Words & Phrases
A) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
I will 'look around' for key words that describe how the bird moves. I can 'find and take' the first answer 'making waves' this means moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean. I can match 1 with C.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012. 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) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
B) What do starlings do at bedtime?
1 making waves
A Flying in a big, curved shape like a rainbow.
2 making arcs
B Flying quickly down or up like when you dive for fun.
3 spirals
C Moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean.
4 swoop
D Flying around in circles that go up or down like a twirly slide
Text mark
Find the answers
Acceptable Answers
A) Link each word or phrase from the text to how it is describes the way the starlings fly.
Click on each phrase to link with the correct answer
1 making waves
A Flying in a big, curved shape like a rainbow.
2 making arcs
B Flying quickly down or up like when you dive for fun.
3 spirals
C Moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean.
4 swoop
D Flying around in circles that go up or down like a twirly slide
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence down they fly
they fly together
B) What do starlings do at bedtime?
Text Mark Evidence disappearing downwards
they vanish
Text Mark Evidence into their roost
they go to their homes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘curtain rippling’?
True or False?
Starlings fly to their home at bedtime.
False
True
Fill the Gaps
rippling
dance
swoop
They look like smoke, or curtains inin the breeze. Every turn and they make together – as if their flying was a that they all knew by heart.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) They fly like a dance they know by heart.
B) They disappear downwards into their roosts.
C) Thousands of them fly together.
D) At bed time they fly downwards.
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
notice the sounds.
Reveal
Listen for rhymes, alliteration and other sound effects.
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: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies © 2012 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
1 making waves
A Flying in a big, curved shape like a rainbow.
2 making arcs
B Flying quickly down or up like when you dive for fun.
3 spirals
C Moving like the up-and-down shape of the ocean.
4 swoop
D Flying around in circles that go up or down like a twirly slide
ripping
swoop
dance