Ready Steady Read Together
Secrets of the Forest: 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?
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhich pet is the margay about the same size as?
A) Where can margays be found?
B) What animals could be heard in the cloud forest?
C) What animal does the margay spot in the canopy?
D) Name two things cloud forests are blanketed with.
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America. The margay in this story lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica.
Adventures in the Cloud Forest
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Just before sunset, the small wild cat heads out from its comfy snoozing spot. YAWN! While wandering along a branch in the canopy, it comes across a three-toed sloth hanging out, chewing on leaves. The margay is hungry, but it doesn’t fancy taking on a sloth.
Cloud forests
Cloud forests are a type of rainforest at high altitude that are often blanketed by fog and mist. They are found in parts of the Caribbean, Central and South America, eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
water
any
wild
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
reserve
wandering along a branch in the canopy
the hollow of a strangler fig tree
a three-toed sloth
rainforest
blanketed by fog and mist
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 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
reserve
Explore
Find Read Talk
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America. The margay in this story lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
reserve
the hollow of a strangler fig tree
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
wandering along a branch in the canopy
a three-toed sloth
rainforest
blanketed by fog and mist
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America. The margay in this story lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica.
Adventures in the Cloud Forest
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Just before sunset, the small wild cat heads out from its comfy snoozing spot. YAWN! While wandering along a branch in the canopy, it comes across a three-toed sloth hanging out, chewing on leaves. The margay is hungry, but it doesn’t fancy taking on a sloth.
Cloud forests
Cloud forests are a type of rainforest at high altitude that are often blanketed by fog and mist. They are found in parts of the Caribbean, Central and South America, eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Howler monkeys roar.
A waterfall rushes.
Insects buzz.
Frogs call loudly to each other.
It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep
in Costa Rica’s cloud forest.
And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day,
tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 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...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question Only Which pet is the margay about the same size as?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America...
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhich pet is the margay about the same size as?
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the words ‘margay’ and ‘size’. I can ‘find and take’ the answer ‘house cats’.
Teach
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 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) Where can margays be found?
B) What animals could be heard in the cloud forest?
C) What animal does the margay spot in the canopy?
D) Name two things cloud forests are blanketed with.
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence forested areas
A) Where can margays be found?
Text Mark Evidence from Mexico to South America
Text Mark Evidence Costa Rica
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence howler monkeys
B) What noises could you hear in the cloud forest?
Text Mark Evidence insects
Text Mark Evidence frogs
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What animal does the margay spot in the canopy?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence (a three-toed) sloth
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) Name two things cloud forests are blanketed with.
Text Mark Evidence fog
Text Mark Evidence mist
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘fog and mist’?
Which One's Right?
And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
Which answer best completes the sentence?
The word ‘hollow’ means the place in the tree where the margay was sleeping was…
A) full of leaves.
B) an empty space.
D) very high up.
C) cosy and quiet.
Match Me
Match each animal with the noise it made in the story:
1) howler monkey
3) frogs
4) margay
2) insects
B) call
A) buzz
C) roar
D) yawn
Click if correct
Check
Tick Me
The margay is hungry, but it doesn’t fancy taking on a sloth.
What does this mean?
Tick one:
A) The margay doesn’t want to try to fight the sloth.
B) The margay doesn’t want to take care of the sloth.
Check
C) The margay is scared of being so high in the tree.
Click if correct
D) The margay doesn’t want to sleep near the sloth.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
explore different genres.
Reveal
Try fantasy, mystery or adventure to find what you love.
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: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Secrets of the Forest: 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?
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhich pet is the margay about the same size as?
A) Where can margays be found?
B) What animals could be heard in the cloud forest?
C) What animal does the margay spot in the canopy?
D) Name two things cloud forests are blanketed with.
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America. The margay in this story lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica.
Adventures in the Cloud Forest
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Just before sunset, the small wild cat heads out from its comfy snoozing spot. YAWN! While wandering along a branch in the canopy, it comes across a three-toed sloth hanging out, chewing on leaves. The margay is hungry, but it doesn’t fancy taking on a sloth.
Cloud forests
Cloud forests are a type of rainforest at high altitude that are often blanketed by fog and mist. They are found in parts of the Caribbean, Central and South America, eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
water
any
wild
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
reserve
wandering along a branch in the canopy
the hollow of a strangler fig tree
a three-toed sloth
rainforest
blanketed by fog and mist
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 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
reserve
Explore
Find Read Talk
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America. The margay in this story lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
reserve
the hollow of a strangler fig tree
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
wandering along a branch in the canopy
a three-toed sloth
rainforest
blanketed by fog and mist
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America. The margay in this story lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica.
Adventures in the Cloud Forest
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Just before sunset, the small wild cat heads out from its comfy snoozing spot. YAWN! While wandering along a branch in the canopy, it comes across a three-toed sloth hanging out, chewing on leaves. The margay is hungry, but it doesn’t fancy taking on a sloth.
Cloud forests
Cloud forests are a type of rainforest at high altitude that are often blanketed by fog and mist. They are found in parts of the Caribbean, Central and South America, eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Howler monkeys roar.
A waterfall rushes.
Insects buzz.
Frogs call loudly to each other.
It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep
in Costa Rica’s cloud forest.
And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day,
tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Howler monkeys roar. A waterfall rushes. Insects buzz. Frogs call loudly to each other. It’s amazing that any animal can get a good sleep in Costa Rica’s cloud forest. And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 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...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question Only Which pet is the margay about the same size as?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
A Wild Cat
Margays are spotted cats similar in size to house cats. They live in forested areas ranging from Mexico to South America...
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhich pet is the margay about the same size as?
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the words ‘margay’ and ‘size’. I can ‘find and take’ the answer ‘house cats’.
Teach
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 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) Where can margays be found?
B) What animals could be heard in the cloud forest?
C) What animal does the margay spot in the canopy?
D) Name two things cloud forests are blanketed with.
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence forested areas
A) Where can margays be found?
Text Mark Evidence from Mexico to South America
Text Mark Evidence Costa Rica
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence howler monkeys
B) What noises could you hear in the cloud forest?
Text Mark Evidence insects
Text Mark Evidence frogs
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What animal does the margay spot in the canopy?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence (a three-toed) sloth
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) Name two things cloud forests are blanketed with.
Text Mark Evidence fog
Text Mark Evidence mist
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘fog and mist’?
Which One's Right?
And yet, that’s exactly what a margay has been doing all day, tucked away in the hollow of a strangler fig tree. Which answer best completes the sentence? The word ‘hollow’ means the place in the tree where the margay was sleeping was…
A) full of leaves.
B) an empty space.
D) very high up.
C) cosy and quiet.
Match Me
Match each animal with the noise it made in the story:
1) howler monkey
3) frogs
4) margay
2) insects
B) call
A) buzz
C) roar
D) yawn
Click if correct
Check
Tick Me
The margay is hungry, but it doesn’t fancy taking on a sloth. What does this mean?
Tick one:
A) The margay doesn’t want to try to fight the sloth.
B) The margay doesn’t want to take care of the sloth.
Check
C) The margay is scared of being so high in the tree.
Click if correct
D) The margay doesn’t want to sleep near the sloth.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
explore different genres.
Reveal
Try fantasy, mystery or adventure to find what you love.
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: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.