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My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science: Non-Fiction Lesson 1
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
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What do you know and think?
Mixing materials together can create new materials that have the best features of both materials.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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Today's Question(s)
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
B) Can you name some materials made by people and describe them?
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Let me read today's text
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Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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laboratories
shaped easily
sap
see-through
weaving
composites
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From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 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
laboratories
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
laboratories
Your turn
sap
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
shaped easily
see-through
weaving
composites
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Everything around us is made of something. In science, these things are known as materials. Some are natural. Others are made by people mixing natural things together, or by scientists and laboratories. Nylon and polyester are created in a lab and used to make clothing.
What did you notice?
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
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My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Everything around us is made of something.
In science, these things are known as materials.
Some are natural.
Others are made by people mixing natural things together,
or by scientists and laboratories.
Nylon and polyester are created in a lab and used to make clothing.
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
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Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Everything around us is made of something. In science, these things are known as materials. Some are natural. Others are made by people mixing natural things together, or by scientists and laboratories. Nylon and polyester are created in a lab and used to make clothing.
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
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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) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
Reveal Explainer
I will 'look around' and find the natural materials section. Here I can see that wool is fur and usually comes from sheep. It states that it can be woven or knitted to make warm clothes.
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Teach
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
B) Can you name some materials made by people and describe them?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - sap of a rubber tree - stretchy - used to make rubber bands
rubber
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
Text Mark Evidence - comes from trees - used to build things - burned to make heat
wood
Text Mark Evidence - found on and under the ground - used for buildings
wood
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - dug up from the ground - hard and strong - can be shaped easily
metal
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - (made) by heating up sand until it melts - see-through and hard - useful for making things such as drinking glasses
glass
Text Mark Evidence - made by weaving lots of threads together - threads can come from natural materials, such as wool - can be artificially made, usually from plastic
fabric
B) Can you name some materials made by people and describe them?
Text Mark Evidence - waterproof and light - comes in a range of different types - can be used to make all sorts of things like bottles and toys
plastic
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - made by baking clay in a very hot oven - hard but can be easily broken
ceramics
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘weaving’?
Tick Me
Which of these are true about wood?
Tick two:
A) Wood comes from trees.
B) Wood can be used to build things.
Check
C) Wood is see-through.
Click if correct
D) Wood is stretchy like rubber.
True or False?
Plastic is waterproof.
False
True
Fill the Gaps
weaving
hard
see-through
We make glass by heating up sand until it melts. Glass is and , which makes ituseful for making things such as drinking glasses.Fabric
Fabric is made by lots of little threads together.
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...
staycurious.
Reveal
Explore topics you've never considered before.
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: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science: Non-Fiction Lesson 1
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?
Mixing materials together can create new materials that have the best features of both materials.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Explore
Today's Question(s)
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
B) Can you name some materials made by people and describe them?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
laboratories
shaped easily
sap
see-through
weaving
composites
Explore
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 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
laboratories
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
laboratories
Your turn
sap
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
shaped easily
see-through
weaving
composites
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Everything around us is made of something. In science, these things are known as materials. Some are natural. Others are made by people mixing natural things together, or by scientists and laboratories. Nylon and polyester are created in a lab and used to make clothing.
What did you notice?
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Explore
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Everything around us is made of something.
In science, these things are known as materials.
Some are natural.
Others are made by people mixing natural things together,
or by scientists and laboratories.
Nylon and polyester are created in a lab and used to make clothing.
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Explore
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Everything around us is made of something. In science, these things are known as materials. Some are natural. Others are made by people mixing natural things together, or by scientists and laboratories. Nylon and polyester are created in a lab and used to make clothing.
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Explore
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
Reveal Explainer
I will 'look around' and find the natural materials section. Here I can see that wool is fur and usually comes from sheep. It states that it can be woven or knitted to make warm clothes.
From: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Teach
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
B) Can you name some materials made by people and describe them?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - sap of a rubber tree - stretchy - used to make rubber bands
rubber
A) Can you name some natural materials and describe them?
Text Mark Evidence - comes from trees - used to build things - burned to make heat
wood
Text Mark Evidence - found on and under the ground - used for buildings
wood
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - dug up from the ground - hard and strong - can be shaped easily
metal
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - (made) by heating up sand until it melts - see-through and hard - useful for making things such as drinking glasses
glass
Text Mark Evidence - made by weaving lots of threads together - threads can come from natural materials, such as wool - can be artificially made, usually from plastic
fabric
B) Can you name some materials made by people and describe them?
Text Mark Evidence - waterproof and light - comes in a range of different types - can be used to make all sorts of things like bottles and toys
plastic
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - made by baking clay in a very hot oven - hard but can be easily broken
ceramics
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘weaving’?
Tick Me
Which of these are true about wood?
Tick two:
A) Wood comes from trees.
B) Wood can be used to build things.
Check
C) Wood is see-through.
Click if correct
D) Wood is stretchy like rubber.
True or False?
Plastic is waterproof.
False
True
Fill the Gaps
weaving
hard
see-through
We make glass by heating up sand until it melts. Glass is and , which makes ituseful for making things such as drinking glasses.Fabric Fabric is made by lots of little threads together.
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...
staycurious.
Reveal
Explore topics you've never considered before.
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: My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Science © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
see-through
hard
weaving