Ready Steady Read Together
First Big Book of How: 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?
The eye sees the image upside down!
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) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
B) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we hear.
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
eye
behind
pass
most
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
transparent lens
vibrations
nerves
to and fro
signal
interpret
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
transparent lens
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.
transparent lens
Your turn
nerves
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
vibrations
to and fro
signal
interpret
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...
Sounds enter the ear and travel down the ear canal. Sounds make the eardrum wobble… which shakes the small ear bones… and swishes the tiny hairs inside the cochlea. The nerves send these vibrations to the brain to interpret as sound.
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
Sounds enter the ear and travel down the ear canal.
Sounds make the eardrum wobble…
which shakes the small ear bones…
and swishes the tiny hairs inside the cochlea.
The nerves send these vibrations to the brain to interpret as sound.
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
Sounds enter the ear and travel down the ear canal. Sounds make the eardrum wobble… which shakes the small ear bones… and swishes the tiny hairs inside the cochlea. The nerves send these vibrations to the brain to interpret as sound.
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: Look Around, Find and Take & Sequence It
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Put the events in the correct order!
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
Let’s take a look at how eyes see a chocolate cupcake. Pieces of light bounce off the cupcake and enter into the eyes through the round black areas at their centre, called pupils.
Reveal Steps
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ to find the first step to seeing the cupcake. The steps are explained in order. First, piece of light bounce off the cupcake. I can ‘find and take’ the first step - Light bounces off the cupcake. I will start to ‘sequence it’ by writing number one in the box.
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
Find the answers
Your Turn
Text mark
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
B) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we hear.
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
Click each step to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we hear.
Click each step to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘transparent’?
Link Me
Link each part of the eye with the correct description:
A) the back ofthe eyeball
1 pupils
B) send messagesto the brain
2 lens
C) round black area
Check
3 retina
Click if correct
D) the see-though part
4 nerves
Which One's Right?
Vibrations from the sound wobble the eardrum…
Which answer best completes the sentence?
This means that the sound makes the eardrum…
B) grow.
A) shake.
C) change colour.
D) shrink.
Find Me
Find the part of the ear that has tiny hairs on it:
Vibrations from the sound wobble the eardrum, which makes three very small bones shake. The shaking-bone vibrations then pass into a curly, liquid-filled tube called the cochlea, which is lined with tiny hairs.
Discuss then check
cochlea
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
join a book club.
Reveal
Talk to others about books you've read to get new perspectives.
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 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?
The eye sees the image upside down!
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) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
B) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we hear.
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
eye
behind
pass
most
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
transparent lens
vibrations
nerves
to and fro
signal
interpret
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
transparent lens
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.
transparent lens
Your turn
nerves
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
vibrations
to and fro
signal
interpret
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...
Sounds enter the ear and travel down the ear canal. Sounds make the eardrum wobble… which shakes the small ear bones… and swishes the tiny hairs inside the cochlea. The nerves send these vibrations to the brain to interpret as sound.
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
Sounds enter the ear and travel down the ear canal.
Sounds make the eardrum wobble…
which shakes the small ear bones…
and swishes the tiny hairs inside the cochlea.
The nerves send these vibrations to the brain to interpret as sound.
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
Sounds enter the ear and travel down the ear canal. Sounds make the eardrum wobble… which shakes the small ear bones… and swishes the tiny hairs inside the cochlea. The nerves send these vibrations to the brain to interpret as sound.
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: Look Around, Find and Take & Sequence It
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Put the events in the correct order!
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
Let’s take a look at how eyes see a chocolate cupcake. Pieces of light bounce off the cupcake and enter into the eyes through the round black areas at their centre, called pupils.
Reveal Steps
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ to find the first step to seeing the cupcake. The steps are explained in order. First, piece of light bounce off the cupcake. I can ‘find and take’ the first step - Light bounces off the cupcake. I will start to ‘sequence it’ by writing number one in the box.
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
Find the answers
Your Turn
Text mark
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
B) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we hear.
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we see.
Click each step to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Put the steps in the correct order to show how we hear.
Click each step to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘transparent’?
Link Me
Link each part of the eye with the correct description:
A) the back ofthe eyeball
1 pupils
B) send messagesto the brain
2 lens
C) round black area
Check
3 retina
Click if correct
D) the see-though part
4 nerves
Which One's Right?
Vibrations from the sound wobble the eardrum…
Which answer best completes the sentence? This means that the sound makes the eardrum…
B) grow.
A) shake.
C) change colour.
D) shrink.
Find Me
Find the part of the ear that has tiny hairs on it:
Vibrations from the sound wobble the eardrum, which makes three very small bones shake. The shaking-bone vibrations then pass into a curly, liquid-filled tube called the cochlea, which is lined with tiny hairs.
Discuss then check
cochlea
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
join a book club.
Reveal
Talk to others about books you've read to get new perspectives.
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.