Ready Steady Read Together
Start to Cook: 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?
…vegetables in this recipe stay crisp and crunchy, and take on the tangy flavours of soy sauce, honey and orange juice.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
B) Which vegetables are added to the pan first?
C) How long should the vegetables cook before the spring onions are added?
D) Why do you need to keep stirring the vegetables while cooking?
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Let me read today's text
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Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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tangy flavours
grater
gluten-free
thick central stem
bite-sized chunks
wok
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From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. 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
tangy flavours
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Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
tangy flavours
Your turn
gluten-free
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
grater
thick central stem
bite-sized chunks
wok
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
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Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
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Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
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Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time. Then, add the spring onions and cook for 1 minute, still stirring all the time. Pour in the orange juice mixture and stir everything together. Turn up the heat to high and cook for 5 minutes, stirring all the time.
What did you notice?
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From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time.
Then, add the spring onions and cook for 1 minute, still stirring all the time.
Pour in the orange juice mixture and stir everything together.
Turn up the heat to high and cook for 5 minutes, stirring all the time.
Explore
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time. Then, add the spring onions and cook for 1 minute, still stirring all the time. Pour in the orange juice mixture and stir everything together. Turn up the heat to high and cook for 5 minutes, stirring all the time.
Explore
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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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 following recipe steps in the correct order.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
1. Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate.
Reveal Recipe Steps
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
Reveal Explainer
First, I will read through the steps listed. Next, I will ‘look around’ starting at the first step in the recipe. I can see that the first instruction when making vegetable stir-fry is to cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. I can now ‘find and take’ the first step. I can repeat this process to sequence it.
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. 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) Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. B) Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate. C) Squeeze the juice from the orange. Put the juice in a jug. D) Add the grated ginger, soy sauce, honey, vinegar and the sesame oil (or sunflower oil), too. Mix well.
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
B) Which vegetables are added to the pan first?
C) How long should the vegetables cook before the spring onions are added?
D) Why do you need to keep stirring the vegetables while cooking?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
B) Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate.
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
D) Add the grated ginger, soy sauce, honey, vinegar and the sesame oil (or sunflower oil), too. Mix well.
C) Squeeze the juice from the orange. Put the juice in a jug.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
A) Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence broccoli
B) Which vegetables are added to the pan first?
Text Mark Evidence carrot
Text Mark Evidence sweetcorn
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence peppers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) How long should the vegetables cook before the spring onions are added?
Text Mark Evidence - cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time - then, add the spring onions
for 2 minutes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence stir-frying is a fast and easy way of cooking where you fry things quickly, stirring them all the time
so they cook quickly and evenly
D) Why do you need to keep stirring the vegetables while cooking?
Text Mark Evidence the stir-fried vegetables in this recipe stay crisp and crunchy
so that they stay crisp and crunchy
Text Mark Evidence (they) take on the tangy flavours of soy sauce, honey and orange juice
so that they absorb the sauce
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘wok’?
Which One's Right?
Which answer best completes the sentence?
Stir frying is a good way to cook vegetables because they stay...
A) soft.
B) crisp.
D) mushy.
C) soggy.
True or False?
The recipe uses orange juice to add flavour.
False
True
Tick Me
How many spring onions are needed for this recipe?
Tick one:
A) two
B) five
Check
C) six
Click if correct
D) ten
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
learn new words.
Reveal
Keep a notebook to write down and remember new 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: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
A) Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. B) Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate. C) Squeeze the juice from the orange. Put the juice in a jug. D) Add the grated ginger, soy sauce, honey, vinegar and the sesame oil (or sunflower oil), too. Mix well.
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Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
Start to Cook: 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?
…vegetables in this recipe stay crisp and crunchy, and take on the tangy flavours of soy sauce, honey and orange juice.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
B) Which vegetables are added to the pan first?
C) How long should the vegetables cook before the spring onions are added?
D) Why do you need to keep stirring the vegetables while cooking?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
tangy flavours
grater
gluten-free
thick central stem
bite-sized chunks
wok
Explore
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. 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
tangy flavours
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
tangy flavours
Your turn
gluten-free
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
grater
thick central stem
bite-sized chunks
wok
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
Adapted from: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time. Then, add the spring onions and cook for 1 minute, still stirring all the time. Pour in the orange juice mixture and stir everything together. Turn up the heat to high and cook for 5 minutes, stirring all the time.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time.
Then, add the spring onions and cook for 1 minute, still stirring all the time.
Pour in the orange juice mixture and stir everything together.
Turn up the heat to high and cook for 5 minutes, stirring all the time.
Explore
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time. Then, add the spring onions and cook for 1 minute, still stirring all the time. Pour in the orange juice mixture and stir everything together. Turn up the heat to high and cook for 5 minutes, stirring all the time.
Explore
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. 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 following recipe steps in the correct order.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
1. Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate.
Reveal Recipe Steps
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
Reveal Explainer
First, I will read through the steps listed. Next, I will ‘look around’ starting at the first step in the recipe. I can see that the first instruction when making vegetable stir-fry is to cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. I can now ‘find and take’ the first step. I can repeat this process to sequence it.
From: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010. 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) Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. B) Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate. C) Squeeze the juice from the orange. Put the juice in a jug. D) Add the grated ginger, soy sauce, honey, vinegar and the sesame oil (or sunflower oil), too. Mix well.
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
B) Which vegetables are added to the pan first?
C) How long should the vegetables cook before the spring onions are added?
D) Why do you need to keep stirring the vegetables while cooking?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
B) Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate.
A) Put the following recipe steps in the correct order.
D) Add the grated ginger, soy sauce, honey, vinegar and the sesame oil (or sunflower oil), too. Mix well.
C) Squeeze the juice from the orange. Put the juice in a jug.
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
A) Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence broccoli
B) Which vegetables are added to the pan first?
Text Mark Evidence carrot
Text Mark Evidence sweetcorn
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence peppers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) How long should the vegetables cook before the spring onions are added?
Text Mark Evidence - cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time - then, add the spring onions
for 2 minutes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence stir-frying is a fast and easy way of cooking where you fry things quickly, stirring them all the time
so they cook quickly and evenly
D) Why do you need to keep stirring the vegetables while cooking?
Text Mark Evidence the stir-fried vegetables in this recipe stay crisp and crunchy
so that they stay crisp and crunchy
Text Mark Evidence (they) take on the tangy flavours of soy sauce, honey and orange juice
so that they absorb the sauce
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘wok’?
Which One's Right?
Which answer best completes the sentence? Stir frying is a good way to cook vegetables because they stay...
A) soft.
B) crisp.
D) mushy.
C) soggy.
True or False?
The recipe uses orange juice to add flavour.
False
True
Tick Me
How many spring onions are needed for this recipe?
Tick one:
A) two
B) five
Check
C) six
Click if correct
D) ten
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
learn new words.
Reveal
Keep a notebook to write down and remember new 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: Start To Cook by Jane Chisholm © 2010 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
A) Cut the brown skin of the ginger and throw it away. B) Grate the ginger on the small holes off your grater. Throw away any tough, stringy bits that are hard to grate. C) Squeeze the juice from the orange. Put the juice in a jug. D) Add the grated ginger, soy sauce, honey, vinegar and the sesame oil (or sunflower oil), too. Mix well.