Ready Steady Read Together
Hamza's Wild World: Non-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?
Even to this day, most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn as fuel.
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) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
B) Name two types of decomposers.
C) Why is it important to put logs or stones back when looking under them?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers.
Scavengers and detritivores eat dead things and decomposers break them down so they can be recycled and provide goodness for more plants and animals. Fungi are some of the most important decomposers, but lots of bacteria can do this, too.
Some eat dead animals and bits of animals, while others eat dead and decaying plants, such as fallen leaves and wood. There will be beetles and beetle grubs inside the log, eating away at the wood.
Be sure to put back any logs or stones that you look under – the animals need the damp, dark conditions.
Another important group of recycling heroes are animals that eat poo! Dung beetles are superstars at this. The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Poo may be gross but it's fascinating and important. It's the major way that animals get rid of undigested waste from the food they eat, but it does lots of other jobs, too. It can be:
A nursery – dung beetles and dung flies lay eggs in poo.
A building material – many birds use dung as one of the materials forbuilding and lining their nest. Oriental skylarks use whole bowls of elephant dung to make their home!
Fertiliser – poo makes an important fertiliser for adding nutrients and roughage to the soil so it's full of goodness for plants to grow.
A communication tool – poo is full of visual and smelly messages for other animals of the same or different species.
A seed-spreader – hundreds of different flowers rely on animals to spread their seeds by eating them and pulling them out.
A cooler – some types of stork poo on their own legs to help them cool down!
Even to this day, most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn as fuel.
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!
fungi
decomposers
scavengers
decaying
undigested waste
hunter-gatherer
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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
decomposers
Explore
Find Read Talk
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
decomposers
scavengers
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
fungi
decaying
undigested waste
hunter-gatherer
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers.
Scavengers and detritivores eat dead things and decomposers break them down so they can be recycled and provide goodness for more plants and animals. Fungi are some of the most important decomposers, but lots of bacteria can do this, too.
Some eat dead animals and bits of animals, while others eat dead and decaying plants, such as fallen leaves and wood. There will be beetles and beetle grubs inside the log, eating away at the wood.
Be sure to put back any logs or stones that you look under – the animals need the damp, dark conditions.
Another important group of recycling heroes are animals that eat poo! Dung beetles are superstars at this. The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Poo may be gross but it's fascinating and important. It's the major way that animals get rid of undigested waste from the food they eat, but it does lots of other jobs, too. It can be:
A nursery – dung beetles and dung flies lay eggs in poo.
A building material – many birds use dung as one of the materials forbuilding and lining their nest. Oriental skylarks use whole bowls of elephant dung to make their home!
Fertiliser – poo makes an important fertiliser for adding nutrients and roughage to the soil so it's full of goodness for plants to grow.
A communication tool – poo is full of visual and smelly messages for other animals of the same or different species.
A seed-spreader – hundreds of different flowers rely on animals to spread their seeds by eating them and pulling them out.
A cooler – some types of stork poo on their own legs to help them cool down!
Even to this day, most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn as fuel.
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...
The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
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
The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it,
and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too.
Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat.
Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear –
and the world would be covered in poo!
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
The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
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) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Another important group of recycling heroes are animals that eat poo! Dung beetles are superstars at this. The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too.
A) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
Reveal Explainer
I ‘look around’ the text and find that animal poo is used as a nursery for insects. I know this because the text says, “The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too.” This shows that poo provides both food and a place for the young insects to grow. So I can ‘find and take’ this as my first answer.
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) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
B) Name two types of decomposers.
C) Why is it important to put logs or stones back when looking under them?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence many birds use dung as one of the materials for building and lining their nest
Acceptable Answers
a building material for nests
Text Mark Evidence poo makes an important fertiliser for adding nutrients and roughage to the soil
a fertiliser that adds nutrients to the soil
A) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
Text Mark Evidence poo is full of visual and smelly messages for other animals
a way for animals to communicate
Text Mark Evidence hundreds of different flowers rely on animals to spread their seeds
a way to spread seeds
Text Mark Evidence some types of stork poo on their own legs to help them cool down
a way for some animals to cool down
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn
fuel and a material humans use to build houses
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence fungi
B) Name two types of decomposers.
Text Mark Evidence bacteria
Text Mark Evidence dung beetles
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence flies
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Why is it important to put logs or stones back when looking under them?
Text Mark Evidence the animals need the damp, dark conditions
to protect the animals’ habitat/home
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘decaying’?
Which One's Right?
“Dung beetles are superstars at this.”Why does the author call them ‘superstars’?
B) they live inside trees
A) they are thebiggest insects
D) they arebrightly coloured
C) they help recycle waste in nature
Tick Me
According to the text, which creatures are found inside a log?
Tick one:
A) birds and eggs
B) beetles and beetle grubs
Check
C) foxes and rabbits
Click if correct
D) worms and snakes
Find Me
Find the word that means nutrients and energy are used again in nature:
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers.
Discuss then check
recycled
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
talk about books.
Reveal
Share your thoughts with friends or family.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Hamza's Wild World: Non-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?
Even to this day, most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn as fuel.
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) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
B) Name two types of decomposers.
C) Why is it important to put logs or stones back when looking under them?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers. Scavengers and detritivores eat dead things and decomposers break them down so they can be recycled and provide goodness for more plants and animals. Fungi are some of the most important decomposers, but lots of bacteria can do this, too. Some eat dead animals and bits of animals, while others eat dead and decaying plants, such as fallen leaves and wood. There will be beetles and beetle grubs inside the log, eating away at the wood. Be sure to put back any logs or stones that you look under – the animals need the damp, dark conditions. Another important group of recycling heroes are animals that eat poo! Dung beetles are superstars at this. The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Poo may be gross but it's fascinating and important. It's the major way that animals get rid of undigested waste from the food they eat, but it does lots of other jobs, too. It can be:
A nursery – dung beetles and dung flies lay eggs in poo.
A building material – many birds use dung as one of the materials forbuilding and lining their nest. Oriental skylarks use whole bowls of elephant dung to make their home!
Fertiliser – poo makes an important fertiliser for adding nutrients and roughage to the soil so it's full of goodness for plants to grow.
A communication tool – poo is full of visual and smelly messages for other animals of the same or different species.
A seed-spreader – hundreds of different flowers rely on animals to spread their seeds by eating them and pulling them out.
A cooler – some types of stork poo on their own legs to help them cool down!
Even to this day, most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn as fuel.
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
fungi
decomposers
scavengers
decaying
undigested waste
hunter-gatherer
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
decomposers
Explore
Find Read Talk
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
decomposers
scavengers
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
fungi
decaying
undigested waste
hunter-gatherer
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers. Scavengers and detritivores eat dead things and decomposers break them down so they can be recycled and provide goodness for more plants and animals. Fungi are some of the most important decomposers, but lots of bacteria can do this, too. Some eat dead animals and bits of animals, while others eat dead and decaying plants, such as fallen leaves and wood. There will be beetles and beetle grubs inside the log, eating away at the wood. Be sure to put back any logs or stones that you look under – the animals need the damp, dark conditions. Another important group of recycling heroes are animals that eat poo! Dung beetles are superstars at this. The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
Explore
Adapted from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Poo may be gross but it's fascinating and important. It's the major way that animals get rid of undigested waste from the food they eat, but it does lots of other jobs, too. It can be:
A nursery – dung beetles and dung flies lay eggs in poo.
A building material – many birds use dung as one of the materials forbuilding and lining their nest. Oriental skylarks use whole bowls of elephant dung to make their home!
Fertiliser – poo makes an important fertiliser for adding nutrients and roughage to the soil so it's full of goodness for plants to grow.
A communication tool – poo is full of visual and smelly messages for other animals of the same or different species.
A seed-spreader – hundreds of different flowers rely on animals to spread their seeds by eating them and pulling them out.
A cooler – some types of stork poo on their own legs to help them cool down!
Even to this day, most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn as fuel.
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...
The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
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
The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it,
and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too.
Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat.
Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear –
and the world would be covered in poo!
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
The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too. Several flies also lay their eggs on the dung for their grubs to eat. Without these decomposers, tonnes of animal poo would never disappear – and the world would be covered in poo!
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) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Another important group of recycling heroes are animals that eat poo! Dung beetles are superstars at this. The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too.
A) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
Reveal Explainer
I ‘look around’ the text and find that animal poo is used as a nursery for insects. I know this because the text says, “The adults eat dung and lay their eggs in it, and the eggs hatch into grubs that feed on it, too.” This shows that poo provides both food and a place for the young insects to grow. So I can ‘find and take’ this as my first answer.
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) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
B) Name two types of decomposers.
C) Why is it important to put logs or stones back when looking under them?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Text Mark Evidence many birds use dung as one of the materials for building and lining their nest
Acceptable Answers
a building material for nests
Text Mark Evidence poo makes an important fertiliser for adding nutrients and roughage to the soil
a fertiliser that adds nutrients to the soil
A) List three different ways animal poo is useful, according to the text.
Text Mark Evidence poo is full of visual and smelly messages for other animals
a way for animals to communicate
Text Mark Evidence hundreds of different flowers rely on animals to spread their seeds
a way to spread seeds
Text Mark Evidence some types of stork poo on their own legs to help them cool down
a way for some animals to cool down
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence most human hunter-gatherer societies use animal dung to build houses and to burn
fuel and a material humans use to build houses
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence fungi
B) Name two types of decomposers.
Text Mark Evidence bacteria
Text Mark Evidence dung beetles
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence flies
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Why is it important to put logs or stones back when looking under them?
Text Mark Evidence the animals need the damp, dark conditions
to protect the animals’ habitat/home
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘decaying’?
Which One's Right?
“Dung beetles are superstars at this.”Why does the author call them ‘superstars’?
B) they live inside trees
A) they are thebiggest insects
D) they arebrightly coloured
C) they help recycle waste in nature
Tick Me
According to the text, which creatures are found inside a log?
Tick one:
A) birds and eggs
B) beetles and beetle grubs
Check
C) foxes and rabbits
Click if correct
D) worms and snakes
Find Me
Find the word that means nutrients and energy are used again in nature:
Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. And some carnivores eat other carnivores. Nutrients and energy flow from food to feeder. But it doesn't end there. The nutrients and energy get recycled and doing this is the job of the scavengers, detritivores and decomposers.
Discuss then check
recycled
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
talk about books.
Reveal
Share your thoughts with friends or 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 and adapted for accessibility from: Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.