Ready Steady Read Together
Out and About Bird Spotter: 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?
Watching them is fun because they are fast, clever and sometimes a little silly.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
B) How is a great black-backed gull different from a common gull?
C) Name some other seabirds mentioned in the introduction.
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Let me read today's text
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SEABIRDS
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals. Seabirds are very important because they help keep the ocean clean and healthy. Some even travel thousands of miles across the sea! Watching them is fun because they are fast, clever and sometimes a little silly.
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
juvenile
adult
Great black-backed gulls are very large and they have powerful yellow bills and pinkish legs. They have black backs and a white underside.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
66cmRocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields January–December Small birds, shellfish and carrion Deep uk-uk-uk bark Lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, heron (in flight)
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
COMMON GULL
Common gulls look like a smaller version of the herring gull. They have greenish legs and a yellow bill and their grey wings have black tips and large white spots.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
41cmCoasts and sometimes playing fields January–December Worms, insects, fish, carrion and scraps A shrill keee-yaa Herring gull, young kittiwake
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
water
because
even
fast
great
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
powerful
carrion
ploughed field
smaller version
scraps
young kittiwake
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. 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
powerful
Explore
Find Read Talk
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
juvenile
adult
Great black-backed gulls are very large and they have powerful yellow bills and pinkish legs. They have black backs and a white underside.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
powerful
Your turn
ploughed field
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
carrion
smaller version
scraps
young kittiwake
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
SEABIRDS
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals. Seabirds are very important because they help keep the ocean clean and healthy. Some even travel thousands of miles across the sea! Watching them is fun because they are fast, clever and sometimes a little silly.
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
Reveal Vocabulary
juvenile
adult
Great black-backed gulls are very large and they have powerful yellow bills and pinkish legs. They have black backs and a white underside.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
66cmRocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields January–December Small birds, shellfish and carrion Deep uk-uk-uk bark Lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, heron (in flight)
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
COMMON GULL
Reveal Vocabulary
Common gulls look like a smaller version of the herring gull. They have greenish legs and a yellow bill and their grey wings have black tips and large white spots.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
41cmCoasts and sometimes playing fields January–December Worms, insects, fish, carrion and scraps A shrill keee-yaa Herring gull, young kittiwake
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins, gulls and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water.
They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish.
Penguins, puffins, gulls and albatrosses are some seabirds.
They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals.
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins, gulls and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals.
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. 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) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE:
66cmRocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields
A) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
Reveal Explainer
I notice the word ‘where’ in the question - that tells me the question is asking for a place. I ‘look around’ the text and find the section about the great black-backed gull - ‘Where To See’. The first place reads ‘Rocky coasts.’ So the first answer I can ‘find and take’ is ‘rocky coasts’.
Teach
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. 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) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
B) How is a great black-backed gull different from a common gull?
C) Name some other seabirds mentioned in the introduction.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Great black-backed gull:
Text Mark Evidence rocky coasts
A) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
Text Mark Evidence large lakes
Text Mark Evidence rubbish dumps
Text Mark Evidence ploughed fields
Common gull:
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence coasts
Text Mark Evidence playing fields
Practise & Apply
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – 66cm
Common gull – 41cm
size
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – black backs and a white underside
Common gull – grey wings (with) black tips and large white spots
colouring
B) How is a great black-backed gull different from a common gull?
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – pinkish legs
Common gull – greenish legs
leg colour
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – deep uk-uk-uk bark
Common gull – a shrill kee-yaa
sounds
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – rocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields
Common gull – coasts and sometimes playing fields
where they’re seen
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence penguins
C) Name some other seabirds mentioned in the introduction.
Text Mark Evidence puffins
Text Mark Evidence albatrosses
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
True or False?
Common gulls have pinkish legs like great black-backed gulls.
True
False
Tick Me
Why are seabirds important for nature?
Tick one:
A) They help keep the ocean clean and healthy
B) They build houses for fish
Check
C) They stop the wind
Click if correct
D) They make the sea warmer
Find Me
Find one word that means to jump into water to catch food:
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins and albatrosses are some seabirds.
Discuss then check
dive
Which One's Right?
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘scraps’?
B) worms
A) squid
D) insects
C) leftovers
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
re-read your favourite books.
Reveal
Like old friends, they're always comforting.
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: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Out and About Bird Spotter: 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?
Watching them is fun because they are fast, clever and sometimes a little silly.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
B) How is a great black-backed gull different from a common gull?
C) Name some other seabirds mentioned in the introduction.
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
SEABIRDS
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals. Seabirds are very important because they help keep the ocean clean and healthy. Some even travel thousands of miles across the sea! Watching them is fun because they are fast, clever and sometimes a little silly.
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
juvenile
adult
Great black-backed gulls are very large and they have powerful yellow bills and pinkish legs. They have black backs and a white underside.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
66cmRocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields January–December Small birds, shellfish and carrion Deep uk-uk-uk bark Lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, heron (in flight)
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
COMMON GULL
Common gulls look like a smaller version of the herring gull. They have greenish legs and a yellow bill and their grey wings have black tips and large white spots.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
41cmCoasts and sometimes playing fields January–December Worms, insects, fish, carrion and scraps A shrill keee-yaa Herring gull, young kittiwake
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
water
because
even
fast
great
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
powerful
carrion
ploughed field
smaller version
scraps
young kittiwake
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. 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
powerful
Explore
Find Read Talk
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
juvenile
adult
Great black-backed gulls are very large and they have powerful yellow bills and pinkish legs. They have black backs and a white underside.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
powerful
Your turn
ploughed field
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
carrion
smaller version
scraps
young kittiwake
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
SEABIRDS
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals. Seabirds are very important because they help keep the ocean clean and healthy. Some even travel thousands of miles across the sea! Watching them is fun because they are fast, clever and sometimes a little silly.
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
Reveal Vocabulary
juvenile
adult
Great black-backed gulls are very large and they have powerful yellow bills and pinkish legs. They have black backs and a white underside.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
66cmRocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields January–December Small birds, shellfish and carrion Deep uk-uk-uk bark Lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, heron (in flight)
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
COMMON GULL
Reveal Vocabulary
Common gulls look like a smaller version of the herring gull. They have greenish legs and a yellow bill and their grey wings have black tips and large white spots.
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE: WHEN TO SEE: WHAT THEY EAT: SOUNDS LIKE: LOOKS LIKE:
41cmCoasts and sometimes playing fields January–December Worms, insects, fish, carrion and scraps A shrill keee-yaa Herring gull, young kittiwake
Adapted from: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins, gulls and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water.
They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish.
Penguins, puffins, gulls and albatrosses are some seabirds.
They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals.
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins, gulls and albatrosses are some seabirds. They eat fish, squid and tiny sea animals.
Explore
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. 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) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
SIZE:WHERE TO SEE:
66cmRocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields
A) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
Reveal Explainer
I notice the word ‘where’ in the question - that tells me the question is asking for a place. I ‘look around’ the text and find the section about the great black-backed gull - ‘Where To See’. The first place reads ‘Rocky coasts.’ So the first answer I can ‘find and take’ is ‘rocky coasts’.
Teach
From: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018. 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) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
B) How is a great black-backed gull different from a common gull?
C) Name some other seabirds mentioned in the introduction.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Great black-backed gull:
Text Mark Evidence rocky coasts
A) Name some places where you can see the great black-backed gull and the common gull.
Text Mark Evidence large lakes
Text Mark Evidence rubbish dumps
Text Mark Evidence ploughed fields
Common gull:
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence coasts
Text Mark Evidence playing fields
Practise & Apply
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – 66cm Common gull – 41cm
size
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – black backs and a white underside Common gull – grey wings (with) black tips and large white spots
colouring
B) How is a great black-backed gull different from a common gull?
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – pinkish legs Common gull – greenish legs
leg colour
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – deep uk-uk-uk bark Common gull – a shrill kee-yaa
sounds
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence Great black-backed gull – rocky coasts, large lakes, rubbish dumps and ploughed fields Common gull – coasts and sometimes playing fields
where they’re seen
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence penguins
C) Name some other seabirds mentioned in the introduction.
Text Mark Evidence puffins
Text Mark Evidence albatrosses
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
True or False?
Common gulls have pinkish legs like great black-backed gulls.
True
False
Tick Me
Why are seabirds important for nature?
Tick one:
A) They help keep the ocean clean and healthy
B) They build houses for fish
Check
C) They stop the wind
Click if correct
D) They make the sea warmer
Find Me
Find one word that means to jump into water to catch food:
Seabirds are birds that live near the ocean and love the water. They can fly high in the sky or swim and dive to catch fish. Penguins, puffins and albatrosses are some seabirds.
Discuss then check
dive
Which One's Right?
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘scraps’?
B) worms
A) squid
D) insects
C) leftovers
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
re-read your favourite books.
Reveal
Like old friends, they're always comforting.
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: Out and About Bird Spotter by Robyn Swift © 2018 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.