Ready Steady Read Together
The Song Walker: 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?
I don’t know where I am.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
……..right, left……………..right…… left………
right……………………………
Le…ft.
I stop walking.
I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but…
I stop.
Still.
Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath.
I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky.
What am I doing here?
My foot is hurting.
The left one.
It is the pain that has made me stop walking, I think.
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I look down at my feet. On my right foot I have a black, shiny leather shoe. Pointed at the front. Delicate stitching around the seam. The leather looks scratched and scuffed and dirty. A piece of it hangs off the side of the shoe, dangling like the last leaf off a tree. Underneath I can see the white of the lining, filthy now with red dust.
I look at my left foot.
It is bare.
I lift it and try to see its bottom side. Slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole, dried earth clumped between my toes. And on the parts of the foot that touch the ground more often than the others – huge blisters. Bulbous, bursting and bloody. Open wide sores with ripped strips of skin. It is no wonder it hurts.
I suddenly feel sick.
I want to be sick.
I brush the stones from out of my foot – making the pain even worse for a second – and crash forward onto the ground. The thing I am holding bangs hard on the grit and I let go of its handle.
Lying on the ground I take deep breaths. I close my eyes and imagine…well, I don’t know what. Not this, I suppose. I imagine something that isn’t this. Something else. Something better.
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Something soft and cool and shapeless that I can’t quite picture.
That makes the sick feeling go away. Eventually.
So, I open my eyes, roll onto my back and look up at the sky.
So blue.
Like the sea.
I imagine myself in the air – the whole world upside down – as I fall towards this sky sea. The wind rushing itself around my arms and my legs. The birds watching me in awe. Dropping wonderfully towards the water and never splashing into it.
My head is angry and thumps like a punch.
My throat and mouth are raw and gluey.
My stomach feels lonely and hollow and sour.
And my left foot hurts.
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
landscape
sole
delicate stitching around the seam
blisters
bulbous
sores
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 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
landscape
Explore
Find Read Talk
I stop.
Still.
Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath.
I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
landscape
Your turn
delicate stitching around the seam
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
sole
blisters
bulbous
sores
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
……..right, left……………..right…… left………
right……………………………
Le…ft.
I stop walking.
I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but…
I stop.
Still.
Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath.
I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky.
What am I doing here?
My foot is hurting.
The left one.
It is the pain that has made me stop walking, I think.
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
I look down at my feet. On my right foot I have a black, shiny leather shoe. Pointed at the front. Delicate stitching around the seam. The leather looks scratched and scuffed and dirty. A piece of it hangs off the side of the shoe, dangling like the last leaf off a tree. Underneath I can see the white of the lining, filthy now with red dust.
I look at my left foot.
It is bare.
I lift it and try to see its bottom side. Slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole, dried earth clumped between my toes. And on the parts of the foot that touch the ground more often than the others – huge blisters. Bulbous, bursting and bloody. Open wide sores with ripped strips of skin. It is no wonder it hurts.
I suddenly feel sick.
I want to be sick.
I brush the stones from out of my foot – making the pain even worse for a second – and crash forward onto the ground. The thing I am holding bangs hard on the grit and I let go of its handle.
Lying on the ground I take deep breaths. I close my eyes and imagine…well, I don’t know what. Not this, I suppose. I imagine something that isn’t this. Something else. Something better.
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Something soft and cool and shapeless that I can’t quite picture.
That makes the sick feeling go away. Eventually.
So, I open my eyes, roll onto my back and look up at the sky.
So blue.
Like the sea.
I imagine myself in the air – the whole world upside down – as I fall towards this sky sea. The wind rushing itself around my arms and my legs. The birds watching me in awe. Dropping wonderfully towards the water and never splashing into it.
My head is angry and thumps like a punch.
My throat and mouth are raw and gluey.
My stomach feels lonely and hollow and sour.
And my left foot hurts.
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
……..right, left……………..right…… left………
right……………………………
Le…ft.
I stop walking.
I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but…
I stop.
Still.
Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath.
I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky.
What am I doing here?
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
……..right, left……………..right…… left………right…………………………… Le…ft.
I stop walking.
I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but…
I stop.
Still.
Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath.
I don’t know where I am.
I look around.
A red landscape of dust.
Flat. Stretching everywhere.
And above, a blue, blue sky.
What am I doing here?
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
……..right, left……………..right…… left………
right……………………………
Le…ft.
I stop walking.
I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but…
I stop.
Still.
Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath.
I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky.
What am I doing here?
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I stop walking.
I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but…
A) What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Reveal Explainer
The character has been walking without even realising it. This suggests that she is not fully aware of her actions. Her mind is not focused or alert, which suggests that she is confused, disorientated or perhaps exhausted.
Teach
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 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
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I don’t know where I am - what am I doing here
lost or disorientated
Text Mark Evidence a red landscape of dust…flat… stretching everywhere
alone and isolated
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Text Mark Evidence - my foot is hurting - it is the pain that has made me stop walking - slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole - huge blisters…bulbous, bursting and bloody
injured and in severe pain
Go to the next slide for more...
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - on my right foot I have a black, shiny leather shoe…a piece of it hangs off the side of the shoe - I look at my left foot…it is bare
not dressed appropriately for walking or the environment
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I suddenly feel sick - I want to be sick - I…crash forward onto the ground - the sick feelings - my head is angry and thumps like a punch
weak and physically unwell
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Text Mark Evidence my stomach feels lonely and hollow and sour
hungry / hasn’t eaten
Text Mark Evidence - I close my eyes and imagine… not this - I imagine something that isn’t this…something else…something better…something soft and cool and shapeless that I can’t quite picture - I imagine myself in the air…the wind rushing itself around my arms and my legs
uses imagination to cope
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘landscape’?
Which One's Right?
Slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole…
Which answer best completes the sentence?
In this sentence, the word ‘sole’ refers to…
A) the top of the foot.
B) the bottomof the foot.
C) the bottom of the shoe.
D) a type of fish.
Tick Me
Why might the author have described the injured foot in detail?
Tick two:
A) To make the reader feel ill, just like the character
B) To express how far the character has already walked
Check
C) To shock the reader into feeling sympathy for the character
Click if correct
D) To explain how shoes are made and which are best for walking
Link Me
Link each vocabulary word with its correct definition:
Check
A) open wounds on the skin
1) seam
Click if correct
B) rounded and swollen in shape
2) blisters
C) raised swellings on the skin that are filled with fluid
3) bulbous
D) a line of stitches where two pieces of fabric are sewn together
4) sores
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
read every day.
Reveal
Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference!
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: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
The Song Walker: 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?
I don’t know where I am.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
……..right, left……………..right…… left……… right…………………………… Le…ft. I stop walking. I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but… I stop. Still. Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath. I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky. What am I doing here? My foot is hurting. The left one. It is the pain that has made me stop walking, I think.
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I look down at my feet. On my right foot I have a black, shiny leather shoe. Pointed at the front. Delicate stitching around the seam. The leather looks scratched and scuffed and dirty. A piece of it hangs off the side of the shoe, dangling like the last leaf off a tree. Underneath I can see the white of the lining, filthy now with red dust. I look at my left foot. It is bare. I lift it and try to see its bottom side. Slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole, dried earth clumped between my toes. And on the parts of the foot that touch the ground more often than the others – huge blisters. Bulbous, bursting and bloody. Open wide sores with ripped strips of skin. It is no wonder it hurts. I suddenly feel sick. I want to be sick. I brush the stones from out of my foot – making the pain even worse for a second – and crash forward onto the ground. The thing I am holding bangs hard on the grit and I let go of its handle. Lying on the ground I take deep breaths. I close my eyes and imagine…well, I don’t know what. Not this, I suppose. I imagine something that isn’t this. Something else. Something better.
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Something soft and cool and shapeless that I can’t quite picture. That makes the sick feeling go away. Eventually. So, I open my eyes, roll onto my back and look up at the sky. So blue. Like the sea. I imagine myself in the air – the whole world upside down – as I fall towards this sky sea. The wind rushing itself around my arms and my legs. The birds watching me in awe. Dropping wonderfully towards the water and never splashing into it. My head is angry and thumps like a punch. My throat and mouth are raw and gluey. My stomach feels lonely and hollow and sour. And my left foot hurts.
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
landscape
sole
delicate stitching around the seam
blisters
bulbous
sores
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 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
landscape
Explore
Find Read Talk
I stop. Still. Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath. I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
landscape
Your turn
delicate stitching around the seam
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
sole
blisters
bulbous
sores
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
……..right, left……………..right…… left……… right…………………………… Le…ft. I stop walking. I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but… I stop. Still. Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath. I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky. What am I doing here? My foot is hurting. The left one. It is the pain that has made me stop walking, I think.
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
I look down at my feet. On my right foot I have a black, shiny leather shoe. Pointed at the front. Delicate stitching around the seam. The leather looks scratched and scuffed and dirty. A piece of it hangs off the side of the shoe, dangling like the last leaf off a tree. Underneath I can see the white of the lining, filthy now with red dust. I look at my left foot. It is bare. I lift it and try to see its bottom side. Slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole, dried earth clumped between my toes. And on the parts of the foot that touch the ground more often than the others – huge blisters. Bulbous, bursting and bloody. Open wide sores with ripped strips of skin. It is no wonder it hurts. I suddenly feel sick. I want to be sick. I brush the stones from out of my foot – making the pain even worse for a second – and crash forward onto the ground. The thing I am holding bangs hard on the grit and I let go of its handle. Lying on the ground I take deep breaths. I close my eyes and imagine…well, I don’t know what. Not this, I suppose. I imagine something that isn’t this. Something else. Something better.
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Something soft and cool and shapeless that I can’t quite picture. That makes the sick feeling go away. Eventually. So, I open my eyes, roll onto my back and look up at the sky. So blue. Like the sea. I imagine myself in the air – the whole world upside down – as I fall towards this sky sea. The wind rushing itself around my arms and my legs. The birds watching me in awe. Dropping wonderfully towards the water and never splashing into it. My head is angry and thumps like a punch. My throat and mouth are raw and gluey. My stomach feels lonely and hollow and sour. And my left foot hurts.
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
……..right, left……………..right…… left……… right…………………………… Le…ft. I stop walking. I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but… I stop. Still. Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath. I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky. What am I doing here?
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
……..right, left……………..right…… left………right…………………………… Le…ft.
I stop walking.
I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but… I stop.
Still. Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath.
I don’t know where I am.
I look around.
A red landscape of dust.
Flat. Stretching everywhere.
And above, a blue, blue sky.
What am I doing here?
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
……..right, left……………..right…… left……… right…………………………… Le…ft. I stop walking. I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but… I stop. Still. Quiet, until I can hear my dry breath. I don’t know where I am. I look around. A red landscape of dust. Flat. Stretching everywhere. And above, a blue, blue sky. What am I doing here?
Explore
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
I stop walking. I didn’t even know I was walking until a moment ago but…
A) What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Reveal Explainer
The character has been walking without even realising it. This suggests that she is not fully aware of her actions. Her mind is not focused or alert, which suggests that she is confused, disorientated or perhaps exhausted.
Teach
From: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 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
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I don’t know where I am - what am I doing here
lost or disorientated
Text Mark Evidence a red landscape of dust…flat… stretching everywhere
alone and isolated
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Text Mark Evidence - my foot is hurting - it is the pain that has made me stop walking - slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole - huge blisters…bulbous, bursting and bloody
injured and in severe pain
Go to the next slide for more...
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - on my right foot I have a black, shiny leather shoe…a piece of it hangs off the side of the shoe - I look at my left foot…it is bare
not dressed appropriately for walking or the environment
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - I suddenly feel sick - I want to be sick - I…crash forward onto the ground - the sick feelings - my head is angry and thumps like a punch
weak and physically unwell
What do we learn about the character from the extract?
Text Mark Evidence my stomach feels lonely and hollow and sour
hungry / hasn’t eaten
Text Mark Evidence - I close my eyes and imagine… not this - I imagine something that isn’t this…something else…something better…something soft and cool and shapeless that I can’t quite picture - I imagine myself in the air…the wind rushing itself around my arms and my legs
uses imagination to cope
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘landscape’?
Which One's Right?
Slivers of small sharp stones stick into the sole… Which answer best completes the sentence? In this sentence, the word ‘sole’ refers to…
A) the top of the foot.
B) the bottomof the foot.
C) the bottom of the shoe.
D) a type of fish.
Tick Me
Why might the author have described the injured foot in detail?
Tick two:
A) To make the reader feel ill, just like the character
B) To express how far the character has already walked
Check
C) To shock the reader into feeling sympathy for the character
Click if correct
D) To explain how shoes are made and which are best for walking
Link Me
Link each vocabulary word with its correct definition:
Check
A) open wounds on the skin
1) seam
Click if correct
B) rounded and swollen in shape
2) blisters
C) raised swellings on the skin that are filled with fluid
3) bulbous
D) a line of stitches where two pieces of fabric are sewn together
4) sores
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
read every day.
Reveal
Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference!
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: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell © 2023 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.