Ready Steady Read Together
My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia: 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?
Different food groups nourish (support) the body in different ways.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
B) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in one box in each row to show whether each statement is true or false.
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
dose of vitamins
alternatives
cells
balanced meal / balanced diet
fibre
gut
Explore
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. 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
dose of vitamins
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
dose of vitamins
Your turn
cells
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
alternatives
balanced meal / balanced diet
fibre
gut
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Proteins
Meat, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts, beans, and pulses (such as chickpeas) contain protein. Protein helps build and repair cells. It’s important to eat protein each day. Carbohydrates
Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates. They give us energy. They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
What did you notice?
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Proteins
Meat, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts, beans, and pulses (such as chickpeas) contain protein.
Protein helps build and repair cells.
It’s important to eat protein each day.
Carbohydrates
Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates.
They give us energy.
They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Proteins
Meat, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts, beans, and pulses (such as chickpeas) contain protein. Protein helps build and repair cells. It’s important to eat protein each day. Carbohydrates
Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates. They give us energy. They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Fruit and vegetables
A healthy diet includes five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day. Eating different coloured fruit and vegetables helps the body get a good dose of vitamins. It doesn’t matter if it’s fresh or frozen fruit or veg.
Reveal: Food Groups & Descriptions
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the first option, fruits and vegetables. The subheadings will help me to find that section so I can re-read it. The words ‘different coloured’, ‘vitamins’ and ‘fresh or frozen’ help me to find and take the correct answer: Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. 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) Link each food group with the correct description.
Fruit and vegetables
These should take up a third of your plate and help give the body energy.
Find the answers
Proteins
Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
Carbohydrates
These are found in meats, nuts and beans and help to build and repair cells.
Text mark
Dairy
These foods made from cow’s milk (and alternatives) contain calcium to keep bones strong.
B) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in one box in each row to show whether each statement is true or false.
Acceptable Answers
Click oneach food group to match with the correct description
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
Fruit and vegetables
These should take up a third of your plate and help give the body energy.
Proteins
Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
Carbohydrates
These are found in meats, nuts and beans and help to build and repair cells.
Dairy
These foods made from cow’s milk (and alternatives) contain calcium to keep bones strong.
Acceptable Answers
B) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in one box in each row to show whether each statement is true or false.
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘gut’?
Find Me
Find two foods which contain carbohydrates:
Carbohydrates
Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates. They give us energy. They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
pasta
rice
Which One's Right?
Alternatives such as oat milk are also good for you.
Which answer best completes the sentence?
An alternative is...
A) a good decision.
B) another option.
D) something unhealthy.
C) exactly the same.
Tick Me
What does it mean to eat a balanced diet?
Tick one:
A) Eating the same food every day
B) Eating only healthy foods like fruits
Check
C) Eating a variety of different kinds of foods
Click if correct
D) Eating you have weighed carefully
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
look for keywords.
Reveal
Notice bold or highlighted words to understand main ideas.
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 Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
Fruit and vegetables
These should take up a third of your plate and help give the body energy.
Proteins
Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
Carbohydrates
These are found in meats, nuts and beans and help to build and repair cells.
Dairy
These foods made from cow’s milk (and alternatives) contain calcium to keep bones strong.
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Ready Steady Read Together
My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia: 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?
Different food groups nourish (support) the body in different ways.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
B) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in one box in each row to show whether each statement is true or false.
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
dose of vitamins
alternatives
cells
balanced meal / balanced diet
fibre
gut
Explore
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. 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
dose of vitamins
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
dose of vitamins
Your turn
cells
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
alternatives
balanced meal / balanced diet
fibre
gut
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Proteins Meat, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts, beans, and pulses (such as chickpeas) contain protein. Protein helps build and repair cells. It’s important to eat protein each day. Carbohydrates Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates. They give us energy. They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
What did you notice?
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Proteins
Meat, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts, beans, and pulses (such as chickpeas) contain protein.
Protein helps build and repair cells.
It’s important to eat protein each day.
Carbohydrates
Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates.
They give us energy.
They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Proteins Meat, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts, beans, and pulses (such as chickpeas) contain protein. Protein helps build and repair cells. It’s important to eat protein each day. Carbohydrates Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates. They give us energy. They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Fruit and vegetables A healthy diet includes five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day. Eating different coloured fruit and vegetables helps the body get a good dose of vitamins. It doesn’t matter if it’s fresh or frozen fruit or veg.
Reveal: Food Groups & Descriptions
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the first option, fruits and vegetables. The subheadings will help me to find that section so I can re-read it. The words ‘different coloured’, ‘vitamins’ and ‘fresh or frozen’ help me to find and take the correct answer: Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
From: My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023. 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) Link each food group with the correct description.
Fruit and vegetables
These should take up a third of your plate and help give the body energy.
Find the answers
Proteins
Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
Carbohydrates
These are found in meats, nuts and beans and help to build and repair cells.
Text mark
Dairy
These foods made from cow’s milk (and alternatives) contain calcium to keep bones strong.
B) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in one box in each row to show whether each statement is true or false.
Acceptable Answers
Click oneach food group to match with the correct description
A) Link each food group with the correct description.
Fruit and vegetables
These should take up a third of your plate and help give the body energy.
Proteins
Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
Carbohydrates
These are found in meats, nuts and beans and help to build and repair cells.
Dairy
These foods made from cow’s milk (and alternatives) contain calcium to keep bones strong.
Acceptable Answers
B) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in one box in each row to show whether each statement is true or false.
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘gut’?
Find Me
Find two foods which contain carbohydrates:
Carbohydrates Foods including rice and pasta are made up of carbohydrates. They give us energy. They should make up a third of the plate when you have your main meal of the day.
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
pasta
rice
Which One's Right?
Alternatives such as oat milk are also good for you. Which answer best completes the sentence? An alternative is...
A) a good decision.
B) another option.
D) something unhealthy.
C) exactly the same.
Tick Me
What does it mean to eat a balanced diet?
Tick one:
A) Eating the same food every day
B) Eating only healthy foods like fruits
Check
C) Eating a variety of different kinds of foods
Click if correct
D) Eating you have weighed carefully
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
look for keywords.
Reveal
Notice bold or highlighted words to understand main ideas.
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 Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia by Dr. Bipasha Choudhury & Andrea Mills © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
Fruit and vegetables
These should take up a third of your plate and help give the body energy.
Proteins
Different colours of these provide vitamins whether they are fresh or frozen.
Carbohydrates
These are found in meats, nuts and beans and help to build and repair cells.
Dairy
These foods made from cow’s milk (and alternatives) contain calcium to keep bones strong.