Ready Steady Read Together
Secrets of the Forest: 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?
The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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 a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
B) Name two things that reserves keep cat species safe from.
C) Which words show that the ocelot might catch the margay?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Another spotted cat is lurking in the shadows… and this cat is no friend of the margay. It is an ocelot hoping to make a meal of it. The chase is on.
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas. Protected reserves like the Monteverde Cloud Forest help keep these species safe from deforestation and habitat loss.
Jaguar
Puma
Margay
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision.
Skills to pay the bills
Margays are excellent climbers and jumpers. They can leap horizontally more than 3.5 m (11 ½ ft) and vertically 2.5 m (8 ft). This is a great skill when trying to catch prey in the treetops. A margay’s ankles can rotate super far around, which enables the cat to descend a tree headfirst. House cats can’t do this!
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
fast
climb
great
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
deforestation and habitat loss
leaf litter
keel-billed toucan
horizontally / vertically
a split second decision
descend
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
deforestation and habitat loss
Explore
Find Read Talk
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas. Protected reserves like the Monteverde Cloud Forest help keep these species safe from deforestation and habitat loss.
Jaguar
Margay
Puma
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
deforestation and habitat loss
leaf litter
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
keel-billed toucan
a split second decision
horizontally / vertically
descend
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Another spotted cat is lurking in the shadows… and this cat is no friend of the margay. It is an ocelot hoping to make a meal of it. The chase is on.
Reveal Vocabulary
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas. Protected reserves like the Monteverde Cloud Forest help keep these species safe from deforestation and habitat loss.
Jaguar
Puma
Margay
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision.
Skills to pay the bills
Margays are excellent climbers and jumpers. They can leap horizontally more than 3.5 m (11 ½ ft) and vertically 2.5 m (8 ft). This is a great skill when trying to catch prey in the treetops. A margay’s ankles can rotate super far around, which enables the cat to descend a tree headfirst. House cats can’t do this!
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...
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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
Running as fast as its legs will take it,
the margay dashes across the leaf litter.
Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree.
The ocelot is close on its heels.
The two cats zip up the tree.
A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear:
CREE! CREE!
The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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...
A) Put a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas.
A) Put a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
Reveal True or False Statements
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for key words like cat or cloud forest. I can see that there are six different types of cats that live in the cloud forest. I can ‘find and take’ the answer false.
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
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Your Turn
Text mark
C) Which words show that the ocelot might catch the margay?
B) Name two things that reserves keep cat species safe from.
A) Put a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Put a tick (✓) to show if the statement is true or false.
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Name two things that reserves keep cat species safe from.
Text Mark Evidence deforestation
Text Mark Evidence habitat loss
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Which words show that the ocelot might catch the margay?
Text Mark Evidence close on its heels
Text Mark Evidence barely a body length ahead
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘descend’?
Find Me
Find the animal which calls out in fear:
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision.
Discuss then check
A keel-billed toucan
Which One's Right?
The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision.
The words ‘split second decision’ mean the margay needs to decide…
B) when it is safe.
A) slowly and carefully.
C) after thinking.
D) very quickly.
Link Me
Link each word with its correct meaning:
A) the place where a plant or animal lives
1) deforestation
B) chopping down all the trees in an area
Check
2) habitat
Click if correct
C) to turn or spin around in one spot
3) leaf litter
D) leaves that have fallen from trees and cover the ground
4) rotate
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
ask,"What if?"
Reveal
Imagine how the story would change if the characters made different choices.
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 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?
The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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 a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
B) Name two things that reserves keep cat species safe from.
C) Which words show that the ocelot might catch the margay?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Another spotted cat is lurking in the shadows… and this cat is no friend of the margay. It is an ocelot hoping to make a meal of it. The chase is on.
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas. Protected reserves like the Monteverde Cloud Forest help keep these species safe from deforestation and habitat loss.
Jaguar
Puma
Margay
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision.
Skills to pay the bills
Margays are excellent climbers and jumpers. They can leap horizontally more than 3.5 m (11 ½ ft) and vertically 2.5 m (8 ft). This is a great skill when trying to catch prey in the treetops. A margay’s ankles can rotate super far around, which enables the cat to descend a tree headfirst. House cats can’t do this!
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
fast
climb
great
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
deforestation and habitat loss
leaf litter
keel-billed toucan
horizontally / vertically
a split second decision
descend
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
deforestation and habitat loss
Explore
Find Read Talk
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas. Protected reserves like the Monteverde Cloud Forest help keep these species safe from deforestation and habitat loss.
Jaguar
Margay
Puma
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Your turn
deforestation and habitat loss
leaf litter
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
keel-billed toucan
a split second decision
horizontally / vertically
descend
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Another spotted cat is lurking in the shadows… and this cat is no friend of the margay. It is an ocelot hoping to make a meal of it. The chase is on.
Reveal Vocabulary
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas. Protected reserves like the Monteverde Cloud Forest help keep these species safe from deforestation and habitat loss.
Jaguar
Puma
Margay
Explore
From: Secrets of the Forest by Alicia Klepeis © 2023. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision.
Skills to pay the bills
Margays are excellent climbers and jumpers. They can leap horizontally more than 3.5 m (11 ½ ft) and vertically 2.5 m (8 ft). This is a great skill when trying to catch prey in the treetops. A margay’s ankles can rotate super far around, which enables the cat to descend a tree headfirst. House cats can’t do this!
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...
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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
Running as fast as its legs will take it,
the margay dashes across the leaf litter.
Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree.
The ocelot is close on its heels.
The two cats zip up the tree.
A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear:
CREE! CREE!
The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead.
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...
A) Put a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Forest cats
The margay is just one of six cat species that lives in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, along with jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, and oncillas.
A) Put a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
Reveal True or False Statements
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for key words like cat or cloud forest. I can see that there are six different types of cats that live in the cloud forest. I can ‘find and take’ the answer false.
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
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Your Turn
Text mark
C) Which words show that the ocelot might catch the margay?
B) Name two things that reserves keep cat species safe from.
A) Put a tick (✓) to show whether each statement is true or false.
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Put a tick (✓) to show if the statement is true or false.
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Name two things that reserves keep cat species safe from.
Text Mark Evidence deforestation
Text Mark Evidence habitat loss
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Which words show that the ocelot might catch the margay?
Text Mark Evidence close on its heels
Text Mark Evidence barely a body length ahead
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘descend’?
Find Me
Find the animal which calls out in fear:
Running as fast as its legs will take it, the margay dashes across the leaf litter. Its sharp claws dig into the bark of a nearby avocado tree. The ocelot is close on its heels. The two cats zip up the tree. A keel-billed toucan that had been resting calls out in fear: CREE! CREE! The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision.
Discuss then check
A keel-billed toucan
Which One's Right?
The margay is barely a body length ahead. It has to make a split second decision. The words ‘split second decision’ mean the margay needs to decide…
B) when it is safe.
A) slowly and carefully.
C) after thinking.
D) very quickly.
Link Me
Link each word with its correct meaning:
A) the place where a plant or animal lives
1) deforestation
B) chopping down all the trees in an area
Check
2) habitat
Click if correct
C) to turn or spin around in one spot
3) leaf litter
D) leaves that have fallen from trees and cover the ground
4) rotate
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
ask,"What if?"
Reveal
Imagine how the story would change if the characters made different choices.
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.