Ready Steady Read Together
Secrets of the Forest: Fiction Lesson 2
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?
Yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays blend into their surroundings.
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)
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
B) Name two animals the margay spies in the forest.
C) What happens when the margay jumps onto the flower?
D) What makes the margay hard to see on the forest floor?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise. There’s a pretty pink flower in the next tree over. And poking out from inside it is a red-eyed tree frog! The margay leaps swiftly from one tree to the next. Its large, furry paws land directly on the flower. But instead of catching the frog, they end up soaked from the water inside the plant! The frog makes a speedy exit and the margay spends the next few minutes licking the water from its paws.
As the margay makes its way back towards the tree trunk, it scurries along the underside of the thin branch. It looks like it is running upside down! Its big eyes scan the earth below. Suddenly, the margay spies a rat feeding on fruit. It’s time to move.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
Yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays to blend into their surroundings.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
pretty
move
eye
after
water
floor
plant
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
rotate
scurries
source of the noise
underside
spies
black rosettes
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
rotate
Explore
Find Read Talk
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise. There’s a pretty pink flower in the next tree over.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
rotate
Your turn
source of the noise
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
scurries
underside
spies
black rosettes
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise. There’s a pretty pink flower in the next tree over. And poking out from inside it is a red-eyed tree frog! The margay leaps swiftly from one tree to the next. Its large, furry paws land directly on the flower. But instead of catching the frog, they end up soaked from the water inside the plant! The frog makes a speedy exit and the margay spends the next few minutes licking the water from its paws.
As the margay makes its way back towards the tree trunk, it scurries along the underside of the thin branch. It looks like it is running upside down! Its big eyes scan the earth below. Suddenly, the margay spies a rat feeding on fruit. It’s time to move.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
Yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays to blend into their surroundings.
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...
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
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
With its ankles turned outwards,
the margay goes headfirst down the tree
into the dark of the forest.
As soon as its paws touch the ground
it dashes after the rat,
almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat.
POUNCE!
The margay catches the rat.
Its first meal of the night is tasty.
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
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
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 & Sequence It
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Put the events in the correct order!
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise.
Reveal Story Events
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
Reveal Explainer
First, I will read all of the events. Next, I will ‘look around’ at the beginning of the story to see which event happened first. I can ‘find and take’ the first event: The margay hears a splash.
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) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
B) Name two animals the margay spies in the forest.
D) What makes the margay hard to see on the forest floor?
C) What happens when the margay jumps onto the flower?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click on each statement to reveal the correct order
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Name two animals the margay spies in the forest.
Text Mark Evidence a red-eyed tree frog
Text Mark Evidence a rat
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence they end up soaked from the water inside the plant
both the margay and the frog get wet
C) What happens when the margay jumps onto the flower?
Text Mark Evidence the frog makes a speedy exit
the frog escapes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat
its spotted coat
D) What makes the margay hard to see on the forest floor?
Text Mark Evidence yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays to blend into their surroundings
yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘underside’?
True or False?
The margay’s meal of the frog was tasty.
True
False
Find Me
Find two words which mean ‘to look or see’:
Its big eyes scan the earth below. Suddenly, the margay spies a rat feeding on fruit. It’s time to move.
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
spies
scan
Tick Me
As the margay makes its way back towards the tree trunk, it scurries along the underside of the thin branch. It looks like it is running upside down!
What does this tell us about the margay?
Tick one:
A) It is a slow climber.
B) It is a skilled climber.
Check
C) It is scared of falling.
Click if correct
D) It is scared of climbing.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
read together!
Reveal
Enjoy fiction as a shared experience with friends and family.
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 2
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?
Yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays blend into their surroundings.
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)
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
B) Name two animals the margay spies in the forest.
C) What happens when the margay jumps onto the flower?
D) What makes the margay hard to see on the forest floor?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise. There’s a pretty pink flower in the next tree over. And poking out from inside it is a red-eyed tree frog! The margay leaps swiftly from one tree to the next. Its large, furry paws land directly on the flower. But instead of catching the frog, they end up soaked from the water inside the plant! The frog makes a speedy exit and the margay spends the next few minutes licking the water from its paws. As the margay makes its way back towards the tree trunk, it scurries along the underside of the thin branch. It looks like it is running upside down! Its big eyes scan the earth below. Suddenly, the margay spies a rat feeding on fruit. It’s time to move.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
Yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays to blend into their surroundings.
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
pretty
move
eye
after
water
floor
plant
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
rotate
scurries
source of the noise
underside
spies
black rosettes
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
rotate
Explore
Find Read Talk
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise. There’s a pretty pink flower in the next tree over.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
rotate
Your turn
source of the noise
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
scurries
underside
spies
black rosettes
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise. There’s a pretty pink flower in the next tree over. And poking out from inside it is a red-eyed tree frog! The margay leaps swiftly from one tree to the next. Its large, furry paws land directly on the flower. But instead of catching the frog, they end up soaked from the water inside the plant! The frog makes a speedy exit and the margay spends the next few minutes licking the water from its paws. As the margay makes its way back towards the tree trunk, it scurries along the underside of the thin branch. It looks like it is running upside down! Its big eyes scan the earth below. Suddenly, the margay spies a rat feeding on fruit. It’s time to move.
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
Yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays to blend into their surroundings.
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...
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
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
With its ankles turned outwards,
the margay goes headfirst down the tree
into the dark of the forest.
As soon as its paws touch the ground
it dashes after the rat,
almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat.
POUNCE!
The margay catches the rat.
Its first meal of the night is tasty.
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
With its ankles turned outwards, the margay goes headfirst down the tree into the dark of the forest. As soon as its paws touch the ground it dashes after the rat, almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat. POUNCE! The margay catches the rat. Its first meal of the night is tasty.
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 & Sequence It
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Put the events in the correct order!
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
Reveal Text Marks
Let me show you
Just then, the margay hears a small splash. Its rounded ears rotate, searching for the source of the noise.
Reveal Story Events
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
Reveal Explainer
First, I will read all of the events. Next, I will ‘look around’ at the beginning of the story to see which event happened first. I can ‘find and take’ the first event: The margay hears a splash.
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) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
B) Name two animals the margay spies in the forest.
D) What makes the margay hard to see on the forest floor?
C) What happens when the margay jumps onto the flower?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Click on each statement to reveal the correct order
A) Put the events from the story in the correct order.
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Name two animals the margay spies in the forest.
Text Mark Evidence a red-eyed tree frog
Text Mark Evidence a rat
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence they end up soaked from the water inside the plant
both the margay and the frog get wet
C) What happens when the margay jumps onto the flower?
Text Mark Evidence the frog makes a speedy exit
the frog escapes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence almost invisible against the forest floor in its spotted coat
its spotted coat
D) What makes the margay hard to see on the forest floor?
Text Mark Evidence yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes helps margays to blend into their surroundings
yellowish-brown fur with black rosettes
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘underside’?
True or False?
The margay’s meal of the frog was tasty.
True
False
Find Me
Find two words which mean ‘to look or see’:
Its big eyes scan the earth below. Suddenly, the margay spies a rat feeding on fruit. It’s time to move.
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
spies
scan
Tick Me
As the margay makes its way back towards the tree trunk, it scurries along the underside of the thin branch. It looks like it is running upside down! What does this tell us about the margay?
Tick one:
A) It is a slow climber.
B) It is a skilled climber.
Check
C) It is scared of falling.
Click if correct
D) It is scared of climbing.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
read together!
Reveal
Enjoy fiction as a shared experience with friends and family.
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.