Ready Steady Read Together
Out There in the Wild: Poetry 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?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
B) How does the poet use comparisons to help the reader understand the poem?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Limpet
Limpet, is it simple
living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock
that your shell makes on the rock?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker
like a soldier in a bunker,
while your muscly sucker foot
keeps you stuck down like a root,
Until the waves rise, and your grasp
is loosed, so you can rasp
at the coating scum of weed,
as you wander off to feed,
with antennae and a trail,
demonstrating you’re a snail.
Now the tide is on the turn,
to your spot you must return,
where your shell fits to the rock
like a key within a lock.
Tides and years roll on, roll round
but, always, here you’re found:
Limpet, simple
in your dimple.
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
limpet
hunker
pock
bunker
rasp
antennae
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From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. 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
limpet
Explore
Find Read Talk
Limpet
Limpet, is it simple
living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock
that your shell makes on the rock?
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
limpet
Your turn
pock
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
hunker
bunker
rasp
antennae
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Limpet
Limpet, is it simple
living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock
that your shell makes on the rock?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker
like a soldier in a bunker,
while your muscly sucker foot
keeps you stuck down like a root,
Until the waves rise, and your grasp
is loosed, so you can rasp
at the coating scum of weed,
as you wander off to feed,
with antennae and a trail,
demonstrating you’re a snail.
Now the tide is on the turn,
to your spot you must return,
where your shell fits to the rock
like a key within a lock.
Tides and years roll on, roll round
but, always, here you’re found:
Limpet, simple
in your dimple.
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Limpet, is it simple
living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock
that your shell makes on the rock?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker
like a soldier in a bunker,
while your muscly sucker foot
keeps you stuck down like a root...
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Limpet, is it simple
living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock
that your shell makes on the rock?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker
like a soldier in a bunker,
while your muscly sucker foot
keeps you stuck down like a root...
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Limpet, is it simple
living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock
that your shell makes on the rock?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker
like a soldier in a bunker,
while your muscly sucker foot
keeps you stuck down like a root...
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
When the tide’s out, there you hunker
like a soldier in a bunker,
while your muscly sucker foot...
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
Reveal Explainer
The word ‘hunker’ suggests that the limpet stays still and sheltered on the rock. It shows it remains attached during low tide instead of moving around. It protects itself by waiting safely until the water returns.
Teach
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. 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) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
B) How does the poet use comparisons to help the reader understand the poem?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck
stays firmly on the rock during low tide
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
Text Mark Evidence until the waves rise, and your grasp is loosened
leaves the rock during high tide when the waves come in
Text Mark Evidence so you can rasp at the coating scum of weed as you wander off to feed
moves around to search for food
Text Mark Evidence now the tide is on the turn, to your spot you must return, where your shell fits to the rock
returns to the rock when the tide turns
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker
simile shows how the limpet stays safe and protected on the rock
B) How does the poet use comparisons to help the reader understand the poem?
Text Mark Evidence your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root
simile shows how strong and secure the limpet’s grip is
Text Mark Evidence your shell fits to the rock like a key within a lock
simile shows how perfectly the limpet fits on the rock
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘antennae’?
Find Me
Find two words which mean ‘a dent in the surface’:
Limpet, is it simple
living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock
that your shell makes on the rock?
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
pock
dimple
Fill the Gaps
When the tide’s out, there youlike a soldier in a ,
while your muscly sucker foot
keeps you stuck down like a root,
Until the waves rise, and your grasp
is loosed, so you can at the coating scum of weed,
as you wander off to feed,
with and a trail,
demonstrating you’re a snail.
bunker
antennae
hunker
rasp
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Link Me
Link each word with the correct definition:
A) a small sea snail that sticks tightly to rocks near the sea
1) limpet
B) a strong, underground shelter
2) hunker
C) to crouch down low and stay still
Check
3) bunker
Click if correct
D) to scrape or rub something roughly
4) rasp
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
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Reveal
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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: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Out There in the Wild: Poetry 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?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
B) How does the poet use comparisons to help the reader understand the poem?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Limpet
Limpet, is it simple living in the dimple of the patch, the mark, the pock that your shell makes on the rock? When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker, while your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root, Until the waves rise, and your grasp is loosed, so you can rasp at the coating scum of weed, as you wander off to feed, with antennae and a trail, demonstrating you’re a snail.
Now the tide is on the turn, to your spot you must return, where your shell fits to the rock like a key within a lock. Tides and years roll on, roll round but, always, here you’re found: Limpet, simple in your dimple.
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
limpet
hunker
pock
bunker
rasp
antennae
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. 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
limpet
Explore
Find Read Talk
Limpet
Limpet, is it simple living in the dimple of the patch, the mark, the pock that your shell makes on the rock?
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
limpet
Your turn
pock
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
hunker
bunker
rasp
antennae
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Limpet
Limpet, is it simple living in the dimple of the patch, the mark, the pock that your shell makes on the rock? When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker, while your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root, Until the waves rise, and your grasp is loosed, so you can rasp at the coating scum of weed, as you wander off to feed, with antennae and a trail, demonstrating you’re a snail.
Now the tide is on the turn, to your spot you must return, where your shell fits to the rock like a key within a lock. Tides and years roll on, roll round but, always, here you’re found: Limpet, simple in your dimple.
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Limpet, is it simple living in the dimple of the patch, the mark, the pock that your shell makes on the rock? When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker, while your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root...
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Limpet, is it simple living in the dimple
of the patch, the mark, the pock that your shell makes on the rock?
When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker,
while your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root...
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Limpet, is it simple living in the dimple of the patch, the mark, the pock that your shell makes on the rock? When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker, while your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root...
Explore
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
When the tide’s out, there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker, while your muscly sucker foot...
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
Reveal Explainer
The word ‘hunker’ suggests that the limpet stays still and sheltered on the rock. It shows it remains attached during low tide instead of moving around. It protects itself by waiting safely until the water returns.
Teach
From: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025. 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) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
B) How does the poet use comparisons to help the reader understand the poem?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck
stays firmly on the rock during low tide
A) What does the poem suggest about the limpet’s daily routine?
Text Mark Evidence until the waves rise, and your grasp is loosened
leaves the rock during high tide when the waves come in
Text Mark Evidence so you can rasp at the coating scum of weed as you wander off to feed
moves around to search for food
Text Mark Evidence now the tide is on the turn, to your spot you must return, where your shell fits to the rock
returns to the rock when the tide turns
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence there you hunker like a soldier in a bunker
simile shows how the limpet stays safe and protected on the rock
B) How does the poet use comparisons to help the reader understand the poem?
Text Mark Evidence your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root
simile shows how strong and secure the limpet’s grip is
Text Mark Evidence your shell fits to the rock like a key within a lock
simile shows how perfectly the limpet fits on the rock
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘antennae’?
Find Me
Find two words which mean ‘a dent in the surface’:
Limpet, is it simple living in the dimple of the patch, the mark, the pock that your shell makes on the rock?
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
pock
dimple
Fill the Gaps
When the tide’s out, there youlike a soldier in a , while your muscly sucker foot keeps you stuck down like a root, Until the waves rise, and your grasp is loosed, so you can at the coating scum of weed, as you wander off to feed, with and a trail, demonstrating you’re a snail.
bunker
antennae
hunker
rasp
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Link Me
Link each word with the correct definition:
A) a small sea snail that sticks tightly to rocks near the sea
1) limpet
B) a strong, underground shelter
2) hunker
C) to crouch down low and stay still
Check
3) bunker
Click if correct
D) to scrape or rub something roughly
4) rasp
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
discover new authors.
Reveal
Try books from writers you've never heard of to expand your horizons.
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: Out There in the Wild by James Carter, Dom Conlon & Nicola Davies © 2025 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
hunker
bunker
rasp
antennae