Ready Steady Read Together
The Wild Life of Animals: 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?
Home right now is a big ball of leaves and branches where we spend the day.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
B) What will the baby aye-aye use its huge ears for?
C) Where does the baby aye-aye stay during the day?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
foraging
grubs
detect
echoes
hollow branches
winkling
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From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 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
foraging
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Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
foraging
Your turn
detect
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
grubs
echoes
hollow branches
winkling
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Here’s Mum foraging for FOOD in the canopy. One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers. I already share her HUGE EARS. They’ll help me detect food when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Here’s Mum foraging for FOOD in the canopy.
One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers.
I already share her HUGE EARS.
They’ll help me detect food
when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Here’s Mum foraging for FOOD in the canopy. One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers. I already share her HUGE EARS. They’ll help me detect food when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Here’s how she does it. Us aye-ayes have LONG, CURVED FINGERS. The middle one is SUPER-THIN and she uses it to TAP on branches, listening for echoes.
Reveal: Matching Statements
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
Reveal Explainer
When I ‘look around’ the text, I find the sentence that explains how the aye-aye hunts. It says she uses her super-thin finger to “TAP on branches.” This tells me that the word tap matches with on branches. So I can link “tap” to “on branches” because that is exactly what the text says she does.
Teach
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 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
listen
on branches
chew
with skinny fingers
tap
for echoes
winkle them out
through bark
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
B) What will the baby aye-aye use its huge ears for?
C) Where does the baby aye-aye stay during the day?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click on each verb to link with the correct answer
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
listen
on branches
chew
with skinny fingers
tap
for echoes
winkle them out
through bark
Acceptable Answers
B) What will the baby aye-aye use its huge ears for?
Text Mark Evidence they’ll help me detect food…
to detect food
Text Mark Evidence …when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs
to help it hunt for grubs
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Where does the baby aye-aye stay during the day?
Text Mark Evidence home right now is a big ball of leaves and branches where we spend the day
in a big ball of leaves and branches
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Which One's Right?
Which best completes this sentence?The baby aye-aye lives in the…
B) Amazon River.
A) Madagascan rainforest.
C) African savannah.
D) Arctic tundra.
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘foraging’?
Tick Me
Why does the baby aye-aye mention that its fur “won’t stay that way for long”?
Tick one:
A) because it plans to wash it
B) because it will change as it grows up
Check
C) because it is covered in mud
Click if correct
D) because it is losing its fur
Find Me
Find the word which means ‘find’:
One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers. I already share her HUGE EARS. They’ll help me detect food when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
Discuss then check
detect
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
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: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
tap
for echoes
listen
on branches
chew
with skinny fingers
winkle them out
through bark
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Ready Steady Read Together
The Wild Life of Animals: 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?
Home right now is a big ball of leaves and branches where we spend the day.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
B) What will the baby aye-aye use its huge ears for?
C) Where does the baby aye-aye stay during the day?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
foraging
grubs
detect
echoes
hollow branches
winkling
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 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
foraging
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
foraging
Your turn
detect
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
grubs
echoes
hollow branches
winkling
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Here’s Mum foraging for FOOD in the canopy. One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers. I already share her HUGE EARS. They’ll help me detect food when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Here’s Mum foraging for FOOD in the canopy.
One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers.
I already share her HUGE EARS.
They’ll help me detect food
when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Here’s Mum foraging for FOOD in the canopy. One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers. I already share her HUGE EARS. They’ll help me detect food when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
Explore
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 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) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Here’s how she does it. Us aye-ayes have LONG, CURVED FINGERS. The middle one is SUPER-THIN and she uses it to TAP on branches, listening for echoes.
Reveal: Matching Statements
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
Reveal Explainer
When I ‘look around’ the text, I find the sentence that explains how the aye-aye hunts. It says she uses her super-thin finger to “TAP on branches.” This tells me that the word tap matches with on branches. So I can link “tap” to “on branches” because that is exactly what the text says she does.
Teach
From: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 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
listen
on branches
chew
with skinny fingers
tap
for echoes
winkle them out
through bark
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
B) What will the baby aye-aye use its huge ears for?
C) Where does the baby aye-aye stay during the day?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click on each verb to link with the correct answer
A) Match how the aye-aye finds and catches its food.
listen
on branches
chew
with skinny fingers
tap
for echoes
winkle them out
through bark
Acceptable Answers
B) What will the baby aye-aye use its huge ears for?
Text Mark Evidence they’ll help me detect food…
to detect food
Text Mark Evidence …when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs
to help it hunt for grubs
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Where does the baby aye-aye stay during the day?
Text Mark Evidence home right now is a big ball of leaves and branches where we spend the day
in a big ball of leaves and branches
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Which One's Right?
Which best completes this sentence?The baby aye-aye lives in the…
B) Amazon River.
A) Madagascan rainforest.
C) African savannah.
D) Arctic tundra.
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘foraging’?
Tick Me
Why does the baby aye-aye mention that its fur “won’t stay that way for long”?
Tick one:
A) because it plans to wash it
B) because it will change as it grows up
Check
C) because it is covered in mud
Click if correct
D) because it is losing its fur
Find Me
Find the word which means ‘find’:
One day, I’ll have dark fur and a BIG, BUSHY TAIL like hers. I already share her HUGE EARS. They’ll help me detect food when I switch from her milk to hunting grubs.
Discuss then check
detect
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
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: The Wild Life of Animals by Mike Barfield © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
tap
for echoes
listen
on branches
chew
with skinny fingers
winkle them out
through bark