Ready Steady Read Together
Hamza's Wild World: Non-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?
…habitats fall into some broad categories called biomes.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
B) What do animals need a habitat for?
C) Give two examples of animals that can live in many different habitats.
D) What does biodiversity mean?
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Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
You probably know that the place where an animal or plant lives is called a habitat. This is a place where it can find food, shelter and safe place to breed. Others can live in almost any habitat and across great stretches of the world. The red fox, brown rat and housefly are top examples. A habitat can be as small as an individual pond or tree or as big as a vast rainforest. But habitats fall into some broad categories called biomes.
Some animals can only live in a very particular habitat. One example is the Kirtland’s warbler, a North American bird that only nests in young jack pine trees, which in turn only grow after wildfires.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
There are four major biomes on land:
Tundra – in the far north and cold, or even frozen, all year round, with mosses, lichens and grasses.
Forest – full of trees. Includes taiga – conifer forest (mostly Evergreen trees with cones and needles) just South of tundra: deciduous forests or woodlands, which are warm and mild with noticeable seasons; tropical rainforests, which are near the equator and are hot and wet all year round.
Grasslands – vast, open areas of land where grasses are the main plants. Savannah is a type of tropical grassland where it's hot all year round and there are wet and dry seasons.
Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold.
Ocean biomes include coral reefs, estuaries and the open ocean. But they also have different zones – from the sunlight zone in the top 200 metres near the surface, through pelagic and benthic zones to the deepest trenches below 6000 metres. That makes lots of different habitat possibilities.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
What is biodiversity?
Walk through your local park and you may see squirrels and robins and different kinds of trees. Get down to ground level and you may see ladybirds and beetles, and in summer there may be butterflies. This variety is called biodiversity. It means the variety of animals, plants and fungi. We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
deciduous forests
coral reefs
equator
estuaries
pelagic and benthic zones
intricate
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From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. 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
deciduous forests
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Find Read Talk
Forest – full of trees. Includes taiga – conifer forest (mostly Evergreen trees with cones and needles) just South of tundra: deciduous forests or woodlands, which are warm and mild with noticeable seasons; tropical rainforests, which are near the equator and are hot and wet all year round.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
deciduous forests
Your turn
equator
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
coral reefs
estuaries
pelagic and benthic zones
intricate
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
You probably know that the place where an animal or plant lives is called a habitat. This is a place where it can find food, shelter and safe place to breed. Others can live in almost any habitat and across great stretches of the world. The red fox, brown rat and housefly are top examples. A habitat can be as small as an individual pond or tree or as big as a vast rainforest. But habitats fall into some broad categories called biomes.
Some animals can only live in a very particular habitat. One example is the Kirtland’s warbler, a North American bird that only nests in young jack pine trees, which in turn only grow after wildfires.
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
There are four major biomes on land:
Tundra – in the far north and cold, or even frozen, all year round, with mosses, lichens and grasses.
Forest – full of trees. Includes taiga – conifer forest (mostly Evergreen trees with cones and needles) just South of tundra: deciduous forests or woodlands, which are warm and mild with noticeable seasons; tropical rainforests, which are near the equator and are hot and wet all year round.
Grasslands – vast, open areas of land where grasses are the main plants. Savannah is a type of tropical grassland where it's hot all year round and there are wet and dry seasons.
Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold.
Ocean biomes include coral reefs, estuaries and the open ocean. But they also have different zones – from the sunlight zone in the top 200 metres near the surface, through pelagic and benthic zones to the deepest trenches below 6000 metres. That makes lots of different habitat possibilities.
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
What is biodiversity?
Walk through your local park and you may see squirrels and robins and different kinds of trees. Get down to ground level and you may see ladybirds and beetles, and in summer there may be butterflies. This variety is called biodiversity. It means the variety of animals, plants and fungi. We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
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From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth.
Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it.
Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways,
with one species depending on others for food
and each having an effect on the environment.
Explore
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
Explore
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Look Around & Find and Take
Be a word thief and steal what you've been asked to find...
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold.
Reveal: Habitats/Biomes and Pictures
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
Reveal Explainer
First, I read the question carefully. It asks me to match each habitat or biome with the correct picture. I look around the list and start with desert. Then I go back to the text and read the description: “Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold.” Next, I look at the pictures and find the one that shows a very dry place with little water or plants. Image D shows this type of environment, so I match 1) Desert to image D.
Teach
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. 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
1) Desert
2) Tundra
3) Grassland
4) Ocean
5) Forest
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
B) What do animals need a habitat for?
C) Give two examples of animals that can live in many different habitats.
D) What does biodiversity mean?
1) Desert
2) Tundra
3) Grassland
4) Ocean
5) Forest
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Acceptable Answers
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
Click on each biome to link with the correct image
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence food
B) What do animals need a habitat for?
Text Mark Evidence shelter
Text Mark Evidence to have a safe place to breed
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence red fox
C) Give two examples of animals that can live in many different habitats.
Text Mark Evidence brown rat
Text Mark Evidence house fly
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) What does biodiversity mean?
Text Mark Evidence this variety is called biodiversity… it means the variety of animals, plants and fungi
the variety of living things in a place / habitat / region
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘equator’?
Which One's Right?
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘intricate’?
A) simple
B) detailed
D) straight
C) empty
Tick Me
“The red fox, brown rat and housefly are top examples.”What do these animals probably have in common?
Tick one:
A) they only live in forests
B) they live near the equator
Check
C) they only eat plants
Click if correct
D) they can survive in many places
Fill the Gaps
environment
species
intricate
Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in ways, with one depending on others for food and each having an effect on the .
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
staycurious.
Reveal
Explore topics you've never considered before.
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 and adapted for accessibility from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
A)
1) Desert
B)
2) Tundra
C)
3) Grassland
D)
4) Ocean
E)
5) Forest
species
intricate
environment
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Ready Steady Read Together
Hamza's Wild World: Non-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?
…habitats fall into some broad categories called biomes.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
B) What do animals need a habitat for?
C) Give two examples of animals that can live in many different habitats.
D) What does biodiversity mean?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
You probably know that the place where an animal or plant lives is called a habitat. This is a place where it can find food, shelter and safe place to breed. Others can live in almost any habitat and across great stretches of the world. The red fox, brown rat and housefly are top examples. A habitat can be as small as an individual pond or tree or as big as a vast rainforest. But habitats fall into some broad categories called biomes.
Some animals can only live in a very particular habitat. One example is the Kirtland’s warbler, a North American bird that only nests in young jack pine trees, which in turn only grow after wildfires.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
There are four major biomes on land: Tundra – in the far north and cold, or even frozen, all year round, with mosses, lichens and grasses. Forest – full of trees. Includes taiga – conifer forest (mostly Evergreen trees with cones and needles) just South of tundra: deciduous forests or woodlands, which are warm and mild with noticeable seasons; tropical rainforests, which are near the equator and are hot and wet all year round. Grasslands – vast, open areas of land where grasses are the main plants. Savannah is a type of tropical grassland where it's hot all year round and there are wet and dry seasons. Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold. Ocean biomes include coral reefs, estuaries and the open ocean. But they also have different zones – from the sunlight zone in the top 200 metres near the surface, through pelagic and benthic zones to the deepest trenches below 6000 metres. That makes lots of different habitat possibilities.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
What is biodiversity? Walk through your local park and you may see squirrels and robins and different kinds of trees. Get down to ground level and you may see ladybirds and beetles, and in summer there may be butterflies. This variety is called biodiversity. It means the variety of animals, plants and fungi. We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
deciduous forests
coral reefs
equator
estuaries
pelagic and benthic zones
intricate
Explore
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. 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
deciduous forests
Explore
Find Read Talk
Forest – full of trees. Includes taiga – conifer forest (mostly Evergreen trees with cones and needles) just South of tundra: deciduous forests or woodlands, which are warm and mild with noticeable seasons; tropical rainforests, which are near the equator and are hot and wet all year round.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
deciduous forests
Your turn
equator
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
coral reefs
estuaries
pelagic and benthic zones
intricate
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
You probably know that the place where an animal or plant lives is called a habitat. This is a place where it can find food, shelter and safe place to breed. Others can live in almost any habitat and across great stretches of the world. The red fox, brown rat and housefly are top examples. A habitat can be as small as an individual pond or tree or as big as a vast rainforest. But habitats fall into some broad categories called biomes.
Some animals can only live in a very particular habitat. One example is the Kirtland’s warbler, a North American bird that only nests in young jack pine trees, which in turn only grow after wildfires.
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
There are four major biomes on land: Tundra – in the far north and cold, or even frozen, all year round, with mosses, lichens and grasses. Forest – full of trees. Includes taiga – conifer forest (mostly Evergreen trees with cones and needles) just South of tundra: deciduous forests or woodlands, which are warm and mild with noticeable seasons; tropical rainforests, which are near the equator and are hot and wet all year round. Grasslands – vast, open areas of land where grasses are the main plants. Savannah is a type of tropical grassland where it's hot all year round and there are wet and dry seasons. Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold. Ocean biomes include coral reefs, estuaries and the open ocean. But they also have different zones – from the sunlight zone in the top 200 metres near the surface, through pelagic and benthic zones to the deepest trenches below 6000 metres. That makes lots of different habitat possibilities.
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
What is biodiversity? Walk through your local park and you may see squirrels and robins and different kinds of trees. Get down to ground level and you may see ladybirds and beetles, and in summer there may be butterflies. This variety is called biodiversity. It means the variety of animals, plants and fungi. We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth.
Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it.
Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways,
with one species depending on others for food
and each having an effect on the environment.
Explore
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
We talk about the biodiversity of a particular habitat, region or of the whole earth. Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in intricate ways, with one species depending on others for food and each having an effect on the environment.
Explore
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. 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) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold.
Reveal: Habitats/Biomes and Pictures
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
Reveal Explainer
First, I read the question carefully. It asks me to match each habitat or biome with the correct picture. I look around the list and start with desert. Then I go back to the text and read the description: “Deserts – dry all year round, can be hot or cold.” Next, I look at the pictures and find the one that shows a very dry place with little water or plants. Image D shows this type of environment, so I match 1) Desert to image D.
Teach
From: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. 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
1) Desert
2) Tundra
3) Grassland
4) Ocean
5) Forest
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
B) What do animals need a habitat for?
C) Give two examples of animals that can live in many different habitats.
D) What does biodiversity mean?
1) Desert
2) Tundra
3) Grassland
4) Ocean
5) Forest
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Acceptable Answers
A) Match each habitat or biome with the correct picture.
Click on each biome to link with the correct image
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence food
B) What do animals need a habitat for?
Text Mark Evidence shelter
Text Mark Evidence to have a safe place to breed
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence red fox
C) Give two examples of animals that can live in many different habitats.
Text Mark Evidence brown rat
Text Mark Evidence house fly
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) What does biodiversity mean?
Text Mark Evidence this variety is called biodiversity… it means the variety of animals, plants and fungi
the variety of living things in a place / habitat / region
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘equator’?
Which One's Right?
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘intricate’?
A) simple
B) detailed
D) straight
C) empty
Tick Me
“The red fox, brown rat and housefly are top examples.”What do these animals probably have in common?
Tick one:
A) they only live in forests
B) they live near the equator
Check
C) they only eat plants
Click if correct
D) they can survive in many places
Fill the Gaps
environment
species
intricate
Biodiversity is important because the world is a richer place with it. Living things are connected to each other in ways, with one depending on others for food and each having an effect on the .
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
staycurious.
Reveal
Explore topics you've never considered before.
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 and adapted for accessibility from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
A)
1) Desert
B)
2) Tundra
C)
3) Grassland
D)
4) Ocean
E)
5) Forest
species
intricate
environment