Ready Steady Read Together
Inside Out and Back Again: Poetry 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?
I didn’t know today is pretend day.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
B) How does this poem show the theme of being different or being an outsider?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Pancake Face
Pem is dressed
in a skirt to the floor
like the pioneers
in our textbook.
SSsì-Ti-Vân
wears a beard
like President Lincoln.
I didn’t know
today is pretend day.
Pink Boy keeps asking,
What are you?
By the end of school he yells an answer:
She should be a pancake.
She has a pancake face.
It doesn’t make sense
until
it does.
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore. Mother asks,
What’s a pancake?
Tears gush
because I can’t
make myself explain
a pancake
is
very
very
flat.
October 31 Halloween
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
pioneers
President Lincoln
textbook
pretend day
can’t keep the day inside anymore
gush
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. 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
pioneers
Explore
Find Read Talk
Pem is dressed
in a skirt to the floor
like the pioneers
in our textbook.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
pioneers
Your turn
textbook
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
President Lincoln
pretend day
can’t keep the day inside anymore
gush
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Pancake Face
Pem is dressed
in a skirt to the floor
like the pioneers
in our textbook.
SSsì-Ti-Vân
wears a beard
like President Lincoln.
I didn’t know
today is pretend day.
Pink Boy keeps asking,
What are you?
By the end of school he yells an answer:
She should be a pancake.
She has a pancake face.
It doesn’t make sense
until
it does.
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore. Mother asks,
What’s a pancake?
Tears gush
because I can’t
make myself explain
a pancake
is
very
very
flat.
October 31 Halloween
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you? By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face. It doesn’t make sense until it does.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you?
By the end of school he yells an answer:
She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face.
It doesn’t make sense until it does.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home.
I can’t keep the day inside anymore.
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you? By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face. It doesn’t make sense until it does.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore.
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Main Point
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I didn’t know today is pretend day.
Pink Boy keeps asking,
What are you?
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
Reveal Explainer
Pink Boy doesn’t ask Hà ‘who’ she is but asks ‘what’ she is. This is dehumanising and implies that she is a ‘thing’ not a person. The words ‘keep asking’ show that he was repeatedly targeting Hà throughout the day.
Teach
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. 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 this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
B) How does this poem show the theme of being different or being an outsider?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence - she should be a pancake - she has a pancake face
Acceptable Answers
name-calling / racist stereotyping
Text Mark Evidence it doesn’t make sense until it does
confusion and delayed understanding
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
Text Mark Evidence I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud
public humiliation
Text Mark Evidence - I run - I can’t keep the day inside anymore - tears gush
emotionally overwhelmed
Text Mark Evidence hearing laughter loud, loud, loud which still echoes when Mother comes home
lasting effects of the bullying
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence I can’t make myself explain a pancake is very very flat
difficulty speaking about / feels shame about the bullying
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) How does this poem show the theme of being different or being an outsider?
Text Mark Evidence - Pem is dressed…like the pioneers in our textbook - SSsì-Ti-Vân wears a beard like President Lincoln - I didn’t know today is pretend day
others are in costume but Hà is not
Text Mark Evidence - what are you - she has a pancake face
Hà is singled out and mocked for being different
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘gush’?
Find Me
By the end of school
he yells an answer:
She should be a pancake.
She has a pancake face.
It doesn’t make sense
until
it does.
I run,
hearing laughter
loud loud loud,
which still echoes when Mother comes home.
Find the word which suggests that Hà is still imagining the bullying when she gets home:
Discuss then check
echoes
Match Me
Match each word to the correct definition:
3 pretend day
4 gush
1 pioneer
2 textbook
C) to flow in a stream
B) the first settlers in a place
A) a school book with facts and information about a subject
D) a dress up day on which you wear a costume
Click if correct
Check
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) Hà is too ashamed to explain to Mother what a pancake is and begins to cry.
B) Hà notices that children are dressed differently at school.
C) Hà tells Mother what Pink Boy called her at school.
D) Pink Boy yells that Hà has a ‘pancake face’ and laughs at her.
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...
explore different styles.
Reveal
Read rhyming poems, free verse, haikus and limericks.
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 from: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Inside Out and Back Again: Poetry 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?
I didn’t know today is pretend day.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
B) How does this poem show the theme of being different or being an outsider?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Pancake Face
Pem is dressed in a skirt to the floor like the pioneers in our textbook. SSsì-Ti-Vân wears a beard like President Lincoln. I didn’t know today is pretend day. Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you?
By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face. It doesn’t make sense until it does.
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore. Mother asks, What’s a pancake? Tears gush because I can’t make myself explain a pancake is very very flat. October 31 Halloween
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
pioneers
President Lincoln
textbook
pretend day
can’t keep the day inside anymore
gush
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. 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
pioneers
Explore
Find Read Talk
Pem is dressed in a skirt to the floor like the pioneers in our textbook.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
pioneers
Your turn
textbook
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
President Lincoln
pretend day
can’t keep the day inside anymore
gush
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Pancake Face
Pem is dressed in a skirt to the floor like the pioneers in our textbook. SSsì-Ti-Vân wears a beard like President Lincoln. I didn’t know today is pretend day. Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you?
By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face. It doesn’t make sense until it does.
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore. Mother asks, What’s a pancake? Tears gush because I can’t make myself explain a pancake is very very flat. October 31 Halloween
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you? By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face. It doesn’t make sense until it does.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore.
What did you notice?
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you?
By the end of school he yells an answer:
She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face.
It doesn’t make sense until it does.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home.
I can’t keep the day inside anymore.
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you? By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face. It doesn’t make sense until it does.
I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home. I can’t keep the day inside anymore.
Explore
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Main Point
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I didn’t know today is pretend day. Pink Boy keeps asking, What are you?
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
Reveal Explainer
Pink Boy doesn’t ask Hà ‘who’ she is but asks ‘what’ she is. This is dehumanising and implies that she is a ‘thing’ not a person. The words ‘keep asking’ show that he was repeatedly targeting Hà throughout the day.
Teach
From: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013. 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 this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
B) How does this poem show the theme of being different or being an outsider?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence - she should be a pancake - she has a pancake face
Acceptable Answers
name-calling / racist stereotyping
Text Mark Evidence it doesn’t make sense until it does
confusion and delayed understanding
A) How does this poem show the theme of bullying and its impact on others?
Text Mark Evidence I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud
public humiliation
Text Mark Evidence - I run - I can’t keep the day inside anymore - tears gush
emotionally overwhelmed
Text Mark Evidence hearing laughter loud, loud, loud which still echoes when Mother comes home
lasting effects of the bullying
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence I can’t make myself explain a pancake is very very flat
difficulty speaking about / feels shame about the bullying
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) How does this poem show the theme of being different or being an outsider?
Text Mark Evidence - Pem is dressed…like the pioneers in our textbook - SSsì-Ti-Vân wears a beard like President Lincoln - I didn’t know today is pretend day
others are in costume but Hà is not
Text Mark Evidence - what are you - she has a pancake face
Hà is singled out and mocked for being different
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘gush’?
Find Me
By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face. It doesn’t make sense until it does. I run, hearing laughter loud loud loud, which still echoes when Mother comes home.
Find the word which suggests that Hà is still imagining the bullying when she gets home:
Discuss then check
echoes
Match Me
Match each word to the correct definition:
3 pretend day
4 gush
1 pioneer
2 textbook
C) to flow in a stream
B) the first settlers in a place
A) a school book with facts and information about a subject
D) a dress up day on which you wear a costume
Click if correct
Check
Sequence Me
Put these events in the correct order:
A) Hà is too ashamed to explain to Mother what a pancake is and begins to cry.
B) Hà notices that children are dressed differently at school.
C) Hà tells Mother what Pink Boy called her at school.
D) Pink Boy yells that Hà has a ‘pancake face’ and laughs at her.
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...
explore different styles.
Reveal
Read rhyming poems, free verse, haikus and limericks.
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 from: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai © 2013 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.