Ready Steady Read Together
First Big Book of How: Non-Fiction Lesson 3
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?
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger…
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 does exercise help us?
B) Why do bones have growth plates?
C) How many bones do humans have?
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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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only
move
because
most
every
pretty
even
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Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
joints
strain
mood
growth plates
rubbery cartilage
squidgy
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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
joints
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.
joints
Your turn
mood
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
strain
growth plates
rubbery cartilage
squidgy
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...
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger, your lungs take in more air and your muscles get bigger and work better. Exercising also stretches joints like your elbows and knees, which keeps you bendy and springy. But best of all, exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood, making you feel super happy.
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
Puff-puff-puff!
It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise,
your heart gets stronger,
your lungs take in more air
and your muscles get bigger and work better.
Exercising also stretches joints like your elbows and knees,
which keeps you bendy and springy.
But best of all, exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood,
making you feel super happy.
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
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger, your lungs take in more air and your muscles get bigger and work better. Exercising also stretches joints like your elbows and knees, which keeps you bendy and springy. But best of all, exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood, making you feel super happy.
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 does exercise help us?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger, your lungs take in more air and your muscles get bigger and work better.
Reveal Explainer
This shows that exercise is good for our heart because it makes it stronger. This is important as our heart pumps our blood to keep all the parts of our body healthy.
A) How does exercise help us?
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 does exercise help us?
B) Why do bones have growth plates?
C) How many bones do humans have?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence every time you exercise…your lungs take in more air
helps us breathe better / helps our lungs
A) How does exercise help us?
Text Mark Evidence - every time you exercise…your muscles get bigger - as your body repairs the tears, your muscles get bigger and stronger
helps us to get stronger
Text Mark Evidence exercising also stretches the joints like your elbows and knees, which keeps you bendy and springy
helps us move easily
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood, making you feel super happy
helps us to feel happy
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the growth plates make layers of rubbery cartilage
to make cartilage
B) Why do bones have growth plates?
Text Mark Evidence the longer and wider the bone grows, the taller and stronger you become
to help us grow taller and stronger
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a newborn baby has about 300 bones
C) How many bones do humans have?
Text Mark Evidence a fully grown adult has only 206
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘joint’?
True or False?
Tears in your muscles are a bad thing and make you weaker.
True
False
Tick Me
Bones are hard and heavy on the outside and spongy on the inside, which makes them strong and light.
Why is it useful to have bones that are ‘strong and light’?
Tick two:
A) Light bones help people grow taller.
B) Strong bones protect our body and don’t break easily.
Check
C) Strong bones are heavy and help us to sleep.
Click if correct
D) Light bones help us move easily.
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) The squidgy cartilage hardens and some bones join.
B) A baby is born with about 300 bones.
C) An adult has 206 bones.
D) Growth plates make layers of rubbery cartilage.
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...
dive intofact books.
Reveal
Read about science, animals, history or any topic you love.
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 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?
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger…
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 does exercise help us?
B) Why do bones have growth plates?
C) How many bones do humans have?
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
only
move
because
most
every
pretty
even
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
joints
strain
mood
growth plates
rubbery cartilage
squidgy
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
joints
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.
joints
Your turn
mood
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
strain
growth plates
rubbery cartilage
squidgy
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...
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger, your lungs take in more air and your muscles get bigger and work better. Exercising also stretches joints like your elbows and knees, which keeps you bendy and springy. But best of all, exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood, making you feel super happy.
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
Puff-puff-puff!
It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise,
your heart gets stronger,
your lungs take in more air
and your muscles get bigger and work better.
Exercising also stretches joints like your elbows and knees,
which keeps you bendy and springy.
But best of all, exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood,
making you feel super happy.
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
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger, your lungs take in more air and your muscles get bigger and work better. Exercising also stretches joints like your elbows and knees, which keeps you bendy and springy. But best of all, exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood, making you feel super happy.
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 does exercise help us?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Puff-puff-puff! It may seem like hard work, but every time you exercise, your heart gets stronger, your lungs take in more air and your muscles get bigger and work better.
Reveal Explainer
This shows that exercise is good for our heart because it makes it stronger. This is important as our heart pumps our blood to keep all the parts of our body healthy.
A) How does exercise help us?
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 does exercise help us?
B) Why do bones have growth plates?
C) How many bones do humans have?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence every time you exercise…your lungs take in more air
helps us breathe better / helps our lungs
A) How does exercise help us?
Text Mark Evidence - every time you exercise…your muscles get bigger - as your body repairs the tears, your muscles get bigger and stronger
helps us to get stronger
Text Mark Evidence exercising also stretches the joints like your elbows and knees, which keeps you bendy and springy
helps us move easily
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence exercise can affect your brain and even change your mood, making you feel super happy
helps us to feel happy
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the growth plates make layers of rubbery cartilage
to make cartilage
B) Why do bones have growth plates?
Text Mark Evidence the longer and wider the bone grows, the taller and stronger you become
to help us grow taller and stronger
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a newborn baby has about 300 bones
C) How many bones do humans have?
Text Mark Evidence a fully grown adult has only 206
Click to reveal acceptable answers and evidence from the text
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘joint’?
True or False?
Tears in your muscles are a bad thing and make you weaker.
True
False
Tick Me
Bones are hard and heavy on the outside and spongy on the inside, which makes them strong and light.
Why is it useful to have bones that are ‘strong and light’?
Tick two:
A) Light bones help people grow taller.
B) Strong bones protect our body and don’t break easily.
Check
C) Strong bones are heavy and help us to sleep.
Click if correct
D) Light bones help us move easily.
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) The squidgy cartilage hardens and some bones join.
B) A baby is born with about 300 bones.
C) An adult has 206 bones.
D) Growth plates make layers of rubbery cartilage.
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...
dive intofact books.
Reveal
Read about science, animals, history or any topic you love.
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.