Ready Steady Read Together
First Big Book of How: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Throw a pebble in a pond and – PLOP! – it will sink.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
B) What does a butterfly drink with its proboscis?
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Let me read today's text
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Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
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water
because
bath
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Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
inflatable bath toy
waxy
spindly
uncurls
nectar
tree sap
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From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. 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
inflatable bath toy
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Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
inflatable bath toy
Your turn
spindly
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
waxy
uncurls
nectar
tree sap
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Butterflies don’t have teeth. They don’t need them because they don’t need to chew. Instead, they drink a liquid using a special mouthpiece called a proboscis. It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly uncurls and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet nectar. They also drink tree sap, rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water. Slurpy-slurp!
What did you notice?
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Butterflies don’t have teeth.
They don’t need them because they don’t need to chew.
Instead, they drink a liquid using a special mouthpiece called a proboscis.
It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly uncurls
and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet nectar.
They also drink tree sap, rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water.
Slurpy-slurp!
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Butterflies don’t have teeth. They don’t need them because they don’t need to chew. Instead, they drink a liquid using a special mouthpiece called a proboscis. It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly uncurls and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet nectar. They also drink tree sap, rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water. Slurpy-slurp!
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Well, the secret is in their six long and extremely hairy legs! Thousands of teeny leg hairs capture air, creating an invisible ‘bubble’ around the legs that allows the insect to float like an inflatable bath toy.
Reveal Explainer
This shows the legs of the water-walking insect help it to catch air to form a kind of a bubble around the legs. This helps it to float on top of the water.
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
Teach
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. 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) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
B) What does a butterfly drink with its proboscis?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence - it uses its back legs to steer - two back legs for steering
to help it control where it moves
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - it uses…its middle legs to row - two middle legs for rowing
help it move forward or paddle
Text Mark Evidence - it uses…its front legs to catch its lunch - two front legs for catching, clutching and killing small insects
help it hunt or find food
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
Text Mark Evidence six long, spindly legs keep the insect’s body above water
to help it float or stay on top of the water
Text Mark Evidence - the insect’s hairy legs make dimples on the water - thousands of tiny, waxy hairs (on the legs) trap air and push away water
to move or change the water
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence thousands of tiny, waxy hairs (on the legs) trap air
to help it capture air
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence nectar
Text Mark Evidence tree sap
Text Mark Evidence rotten fruit
B) What does a butterfly drink with its proboscis?
Text Mark Evidence poo juices
Text Mark Evidence water / muddy puddle water
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Text Mark Evidence tears of turtles
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘spindly’?
Which One's Right?
Thousands of teeny leg hairs capture air, creating an invisible ‘bubble’ around the legs that allows the insect to float like an inflatable bath toy.
The word ‘inflatable’ suggests it is filled with…
B) bubbles
A) water
C) wax
D) air
True or False?
A butterfly doesn’t have teeth because it does not need to chew.
False
True
Fill the Gaps
uncurls
nectar
sap
It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet . They also drink tree , rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water. Slurpy-slurp!
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
use theclues.
Reveal
Use the context to figure out unfamiliar 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: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
First Big Book of How: Non-Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Throw a pebble in a pond and – PLOP! – it will sink.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
B) What does a butterfly drink with its proboscis?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
water
because
bath
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
inflatable bath toy
waxy
spindly
uncurls
nectar
tree sap
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. 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
inflatable bath toy
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
inflatable bath toy
Your turn
spindly
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
waxy
uncurls
nectar
tree sap
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Butterflies don’t have teeth. They don’t need them because they don’t need to chew. Instead, they drink a liquid using a special mouthpiece called a proboscis. It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly uncurls and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet nectar. They also drink tree sap, rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water. Slurpy-slurp!
What did you notice?
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Butterflies don’t have teeth.
They don’t need them because they don’t need to chew.
Instead, they drink a liquid using a special mouthpiece called a proboscis.
It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly uncurls
and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet nectar.
They also drink tree sap, rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water.
Slurpy-slurp!
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Butterflies don’t have teeth. They don’t need them because they don’t need to chew. Instead, they drink a liquid using a special mouthpiece called a proboscis. It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly uncurls and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet nectar. They also drink tree sap, rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water. Slurpy-slurp!
Explore
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Well, the secret is in their six long and extremely hairy legs! Thousands of teeny leg hairs capture air, creating an invisible ‘bubble’ around the legs that allows the insect to float like an inflatable bath toy.
Reveal Explainer
This shows the legs of the water-walking insect help it to catch air to form a kind of a bubble around the legs. This helps it to float on top of the water.
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
Teach
From: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024. 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) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
B) What does a butterfly drink with its proboscis?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence - it uses its back legs to steer - two back legs for steering
to help it control where it moves
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - it uses…its middle legs to row - two middle legs for rowing
help it move forward or paddle
Text Mark Evidence - it uses…its front legs to catch its lunch - two front legs for catching, clutching and killing small insects
help it hunt or find food
A) How are the legs of a water-walking insect useful?
Text Mark Evidence six long, spindly legs keep the insect’s body above water
to help it float or stay on top of the water
Text Mark Evidence - the insect’s hairy legs make dimples on the water - thousands of tiny, waxy hairs (on the legs) trap air and push away water
to move or change the water
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence thousands of tiny, waxy hairs (on the legs) trap air
to help it capture air
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence nectar
Text Mark Evidence tree sap
Text Mark Evidence rotten fruit
B) What does a butterfly drink with its proboscis?
Text Mark Evidence poo juices
Text Mark Evidence water / muddy puddle water
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Text Mark Evidence tears of turtles
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘spindly’?
Which One's Right?
Thousands of teeny leg hairs capture air, creating an invisible ‘bubble’ around the legs that allows the insect to float like an inflatable bath toy.
The word ‘inflatable’ suggests it is filled with…
B) bubbles
A) water
C) wax
D) air
True or False?
A butterfly doesn’t have teeth because it does not need to chew.
False
True
Fill the Gaps
uncurls
nectar
sap
It’s like a long, curled-up straw, which the butterfly and inserts deep into a flower to sip its sweet . They also drink tree , rotten fruit, poo juices and muddy puddle water. Slurpy-slurp!
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
use theclues.
Reveal
Use the context to figure out unfamiliar 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: First Big Book of How by Sally Symes and Saranne Taylor © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
uncurls
nectar
sap