Ready Steady Read Together
Hamza's Wild World: Non-Fiction Lesson 3
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?
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that?
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) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
B) How do people sometimes find predators to film?
C) According to the text, polar bears can swim the distance of the English Channel how many times?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
When filming predators, you have to get into their mindset and think like a predator. After all, you are tracking and following them, and you want to ‘catch’ them on camera.
So, how do we find them? Sometimes they have collars with tags, but others we find because we get to know their territory and behaviour and know where they are likely to be. It's like humans having their favourite spot on the sofa!
When following predators, you can learn some surprising things. We often go to film polar bears on foot. We carry rifles to defend ourselves but of course we don't want to use them on these precious animals, so we also carry rocks to protect ourselves. Why? The polar bears are scared of rocks. What?
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that? Cracking ice, of course. The polar bears have been taught by their mothers that this sound means danger and they have to move away from it, otherwise they might fall through into the water. Swimming uses far more energy than walking,
so polar bears would prefer to avoid plunging into the water. But in fact, if they have to swim they are very strong swimmers. They can happily swim for 200 kilometres - which is like swimming the English Channel six times!
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell. They can sniff a baby seal 3 metres under the ice, hiding in its den. They can also sense a seal swimming under the ice and they know the seal will have to come up to breathe. So they can wait - they might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting - or they can jump up and down on the ice, trying to break it.
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!
predators
on foot
territory
ingenious
aural stimulus
hunt by scent
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
predators
Explore
Find Read Talk
When filming predators, you have to get into their mindset and think like a predator. After all, you are tracking and following them, and you want to ‘catch’ them on camera.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
predators
Your turn
territory
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
on foot
ingenious
aural stimulus
hunt by scent
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
When filming predators, you have to get into their mindset and think like a predator. After all, you are tracking and following them, and you want to ‘catch’ them on camera.
So, how do we find them? Sometimes they have collars with tags, but others we find because we get to know their territory and behaviour and know where they are likely to be. It’s like humans having their favourite spot on the sofa!
When following predators, you can learn some surprising things. We often go to film polar bears on foot. We carry rifles to defend ourselves but of course we don’t want to use them on these precious animals, so we also carry rocks to protect ourselves. Why? The polar bears are scared of rocks. What?
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that? Cracking ice, of course. The polar bears have been taught by their mothers that this sound means danger and they have to move away from it, otherwise they might fall through into the water. Swimming uses far more energy than walking,
so polar bears would prefer to avoid plunging into the water. But in fact, if they have to swim they are very strong swimmers. They can happily swim for 200 kilometres - which is like swimming the English Channel six times!
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell. They can sniff a baby seal 3 metres under the ice, hiding in its den. They can also sense a seal swimming under the ice and they know the seal will have to come up to breathe. So they can wait - they might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting - or they can jump up and down on the ice, trying to break it.
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...
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell.
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
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’.
Ingenious.
This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger.
If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away.
Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell.
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
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell.
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) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that?
A) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
To answer this question, I ‘look around’ the text for information about polar bears. I read: “If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound.” I can ‘find and take’ the answer from the text. This tells me that polar bears can be scared by the sound of rocks being clapped together.
Reveal Explainer
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
Your Turn
A) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
B) How do people sometimes find predators to film?
C) According to the text, polar bears can swim the distance of the English Channel how many times?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence the polar bears have been taught by their mothers that this sound means danger
mother polar bears teach their cubs that cracking ice means danger
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence they have to move away from it, otherwise they might fall through into the water
they move away from the sound of cracking ice to avoid danger
Text Mark Evidence - if they have to swim they are very strong swimmers - they can happily swim for 200 kilometres
they are strong swimmers / can swim long distances
A) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
Text Mark Evidence polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell
they have a very strong sense of smell / hunt by scent
Text Mark Evidence they can sniff a baby seal 3 metres under the ice
they can smell seals under the ice
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence they might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting
they wait at breathing holes to catch seals
Text Mark Evidence they can jump up and down on the ice, trying to break it
they sometimes jump on the ice to break it when hunting seals
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence sometimes they have collars with tags
by using collars with tags
B) How do people sometimes find predators to film?
Text Mark Evidence we get to know their territory and behaviour and know where they are likely to be
by studying where predators live and how they behave
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) According to the text, polar bears can swim the distance of the English Channel how many times?
Text Mark Evidence ...happily swim for 200 kilometres – which is like swimming the English Channel six times!
six times
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘territory’?
True or False?
Polar bears are afraid of swimming and cannot swim more than a few metres.
True
False
Link Me
Link each word or phrase to the correct definition:
A) travelling somewhere by walking rather than using a vehicle
1) predators
B) very clever or inventive, often finding a smart way to solve a problem
2) on foot
C) finding and following prey by using a strong sense of smell
3) ingenious
Check
D) animals that catch and eat other animals for food
Click if correct
4) hunt by scent
Which One's Right?
“They might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting.”What does this tell us about polar bears when they hunt?
B) they hunt in groups
A) they get tired quickly
D) they prefer to swim
C) they are patient hunters
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create your own fact book.
Reveal
Write down what you've learned and add pictures or diagrams.
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.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Hamza's Wild World: Non-Fiction Lesson 3
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?
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that?
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) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
B) How do people sometimes find predators to film?
C) According to the text, polar bears can swim the distance of the English Channel how many times?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
When filming predators, you have to get into their mindset and think like a predator. After all, you are tracking and following them, and you want to ‘catch’ them on camera. So, how do we find them? Sometimes they have collars with tags, but others we find because we get to know their territory and behaviour and know where they are likely to be. It's like humans having their favourite spot on the sofa! When following predators, you can learn some surprising things. We often go to film polar bears on foot. We carry rifles to defend ourselves but of course we don't want to use them on these precious animals, so we also carry rocks to protect ourselves. Why? The polar bears are scared of rocks. What?
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that? Cracking ice, of course. The polar bears have been taught by their mothers that this sound means danger and they have to move away from it, otherwise they might fall through into the water. Swimming uses far more energy than walking,
so polar bears would prefer to avoid plunging into the water. But in fact, if they have to swim they are very strong swimmers. They can happily swim for 200 kilometres - which is like swimming the English Channel six times!
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell. They can sniff a baby seal 3 metres under the ice, hiding in its den. They can also sense a seal swimming under the ice and they know the seal will have to come up to breathe. So they can wait - they might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting - or they can jump up and down on the ice, trying to break it.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
predators
on foot
territory
ingenious
aural stimulus
hunt by scent
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
predators
Explore
Find Read Talk
When filming predators, you have to get into their mindset and think like a predator. After all, you are tracking and following them, and you want to ‘catch’ them on camera.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
predators
Your turn
territory
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
on foot
ingenious
aural stimulus
hunt by scent
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
When filming predators, you have to get into their mindset and think like a predator. After all, you are tracking and following them, and you want to ‘catch’ them on camera. So, how do we find them? Sometimes they have collars with tags, but others we find because we get to know their territory and behaviour and know where they are likely to be. It’s like humans having their favourite spot on the sofa! When following predators, you can learn some surprising things. We often go to film polar bears on foot. We carry rifles to defend ourselves but of course we don’t want to use them on these precious animals, so we also carry rocks to protect ourselves. Why? The polar bears are scared of rocks. What?
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that? Cracking ice, of course. The polar bears have been taught by their mothers that this sound means danger and they have to move away from it, otherwise they might fall through into the water. Swimming uses far more energy than walking,
so polar bears would prefer to avoid plunging into the water. But in fact, if they have to swim they are very strong swimmers. They can happily swim for 200 kilometres - which is like swimming the English Channel six times!
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell. They can sniff a baby seal 3 metres under the ice, hiding in its den. They can also sense a seal swimming under the ice and they know the seal will have to come up to breathe. So they can wait - they might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting - or they can jump up and down on the ice, trying to break it.
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...
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell.
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
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’.
Ingenious.
This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger.
If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away.
Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell.
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
So clapping rocks means ‘move on, bear’. Ingenious. This is an aural stimulus, which means a sound trigger. If we’re in a polar bear’s habitat, it’s the smell that gives us away. Polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell.
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) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound. What else sounds like that?
A) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
To answer this question, I ‘look around’ the text for information about polar bears. I read: “If you want to scare a polar bear, all you have to do is clap two rocks together and make that cracking sound.” I can ‘find and take’ the answer from the text. This tells me that polar bears can be scared by the sound of rocks being clapped together.
Reveal Explainer
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
Your Turn
A) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
B) How do people sometimes find predators to film?
C) According to the text, polar bears can swim the distance of the English Channel how many times?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence the polar bears have been taught by their mothers that this sound means danger
mother polar bears teach their cubs that cracking ice means danger
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence they have to move away from it, otherwise they might fall through into the water
they move away from the sound of cracking ice to avoid danger
Text Mark Evidence - if they have to swim they are very strong swimmers - they can happily swim for 200 kilometres
they are strong swimmers / can swim long distances
A) Give three things the text tells us about polar bears.
Text Mark Evidence polar bears hunt by scent and they have an amazing sense of smell
they have a very strong sense of smell / hunt by scent
Text Mark Evidence they can sniff a baby seal 3 metres under the ice
they can smell seals under the ice
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence they might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting
they wait at breathing holes to catch seals
Text Mark Evidence they can jump up and down on the ice, trying to break it
they sometimes jump on the ice to break it when hunting seals
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence sometimes they have collars with tags
by using collars with tags
B) How do people sometimes find predators to film?
Text Mark Evidence we get to know their territory and behaviour and know where they are likely to be
by studying where predators live and how they behave
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) According to the text, polar bears can swim the distance of the English Channel how many times?
Text Mark Evidence ...happily swim for 200 kilometres – which is like swimming the English Channel six times!
six times
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘territory’?
True or False?
Polar bears are afraid of swimming and cannot swim more than a few metres.
True
False
Link Me
Link each word or phrase to the correct definition:
A) travelling somewhere by walking rather than using a vehicle
1) predators
B) very clever or inventive, often finding a smart way to solve a problem
2) on foot
C) finding and following prey by using a strong sense of smell
3) ingenious
Check
D) animals that catch and eat other animals for food
Click if correct
4) hunt by scent
Which One's Right?
“They might sit at a breathing hole for hours, just waiting.”What does this tell us about polar bears when they hunt?
B) they hunt in groups
A) they get tired quickly
D) they prefer to swim
C) they are patient hunters
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create your own fact book.
Reveal
Write down what you've learned and add pictures or diagrams.
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.