Ready Steady Read Together
The Nowhere Emporium: 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?
This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyI am a… traveller. Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller.
A) Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver doesn’t know who Doc Brown is.
B) How is the Emporium like a tree?
C) Why can they not allow people to remember what they have seen in the Emporium?
D) Why does Lucien Silver believe that Daniel is special?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.”
“Through time?” said Daniel. “Like Doc Brown?”
Mr Silver gave him a blank look. “Who?”
“Doc Brown,” said Daniel. “You know. Marty McFly. Back to the Future? It’s an old movie I saw at the children’s home. Doc and Marty have a time machine.”
Mr Silver shrugged and pointed to the red curtain. “Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie. Wherever I visit, customers are drawn to this place. For a small fee, I allow them to step through the curtain and experience what it's like to fly among the endless stars, to taste the colour of the sunset and explore the very boundaries of imagination. I allow them to visit my Wonders. Of course, I cannot allow my customers to remember what they have seen in the Emporium. Not anymore. Many years ago, when the shop first opened, they remembered everything. But we soon became much too busy to cope with the crowds. Now they leave with a foggy glow of happiness, perhaps even the sense that their life has changed forever. But they cannot recall the shop. To them, it’s as if it never existed.”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
He frowned, and a sudden weight seemed to cause him to sag. “When you ran away, strayed onto that road, you nearly died.” Daniel opened his mouth but found his throat thick and choked.
“If that’s true, if I nearly died, then why am I here? How did I get I get out alive?”
“Because I interfered,” said Silver. “I saved you Daniel. I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. It was not an easy decision to make. But the day you returned to the Emporium - the moment I realised you remembered being here the previous day - I knew you were special. I knew there must be a reason why you came to my attention.”
“What sort of reason?”
“I don’t know yet,” said Mr Silva, drumming his fingers on his chin. “But I am offering you the chance of a lifetime, my boy - the chance of a hundred lifetimes. Come with me. Learn about the Emporium. Prove that I was right to interfere. See the world in a way nobody else can. What do you say?”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
globe
boundaries
fee
sag
strayed
interfered
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. 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
globe
Explore
Find Read Talk
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.”
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
globe
Your turn
fee
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
boundaries
sag
strayed
interfered
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.”
“Through time?” said Daniel. “Like Doc Brown?”
Mr Silver gave him a blank look. “Who?”
“Doc Brown,” said Daniel. “You know. Marty McFly. Back to the Future? It’s an old movie I saw at the children’s home. Doc and Marty have a time machine.”
Mr Silver shrugged and pointed to the red curtain. “Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie. Wherever I visit, customers are drawn to this place. For a small fee, I allow them to step through the curtain and experience what it's like to fly among the endless stars, to taste the colour of the sunset and explore the very boundaries of imagination. I allow them to visit my Wonders. Of course, I cannot allow my customers to remember what they have seen in the Emporium. Not anymore. Many years ago, when the shop first opened, they remembered everything. But we soon became much too busy to cope with the crowds. Now they leave with a foggy glow of happiness, perhaps even the sense that their life has changed forever. But they cannot recall the shop. To them, it’s as if it never existed.”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
He frowned, and a sudden weight seemed to cause him to sag. “When you ran away, strayed onto that road, you nearly died.” Daniel opened his mouth but found his throat thick and choked.
“If that’s true, if I nearly died, then why am I here? How did I get I get out alive?”
“Because I interfered,” said Silver. “I saved you Daniel. I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. It was not an easy decision to make. But the day you returned to the Emporium - the moment I realised you remembered being here the previous day - I knew you were special. I knew there must be a reason why you came to my attention.”
“What sort of reason?”
“I don’t know yet,” said Mr Silva, drumming his fingers on his chin. “But I am offering you the chance of a lifetime, my boy - the chance of a hundred lifetimes. Come with me. Learn about the Emporium. Prove that I was right to interfere. See the world in a way nobody else can. What do you say?”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
“Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie.”
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
“Beyond that curtain,
beyond the many staircases we have just passed,
lie my Wonders.”
“Think of the Emporium as being like a tree.”
“The hall of staircases you just walked through
– that is the trunk.”
“Branching off it are the passageways,
hundreds of them,
where the Wonders lie.”
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
“Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie.”
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. 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...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question OnlyI am a… traveller. Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller.
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.”
Teacher Model Question Only I am a… traveller. Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller.
Reveal Explainer
This phrase shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller because he is talking about his Emporium and says it “dances through time.”
Teach
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. 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) Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver doesn’t know who Doc Brown is.
B) How is the Emporium like a tree?
C) Why can they not allow people to remember what they have seen in the Emporium?
D) Why does Lucien Silver believe that Daniel is special?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver doesn’t know who Doc Brown is.
Text Mark Evidence Mr Silver gave him a blank look
Text Mark Evidence Who?
Text Mark Evidence Mr Silver shrugged
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the hall of staircases… that is the trunk
the hall of staircases is like the trunk of a tree
B) How is the Emporium like a tree?
Text Mark Evidence branching off it are the passageways
the passageways are like branches
Text Mark Evidence ...where the Wonders lie
the Wonders lie along these passageways (like things growing from branches)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Why can they not allow people to remember what they have seen in the Emporium?
Text Mark Evidence we soon became much too busy to cope with the crowds
because too many people came to the shop / the crowds became too big
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) Why does Lucien Silver believe that Daniel is special?
Text Mark Evidence - the moment I realised you remembered being here the previous day…I knew you were special - to them (everybody else), it’s as if it never existed
Daniel remembered the Emporium when others cannot
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with the correct definition:
A) limits
1) globe
Check
B) the world
2) fee
Click if correct
C) sink or droop
3) boundaries
D) an amount of money paid for something
4) sag
Tick Me
Which of these things can people experience in the Emporium?
Tick all that apply:
A) flying among the stars
B) living a hundred lifetimes
Check
C) travelling to the future
Click if correct
D) tasting the colours of the sunset
Which One's Right?
Now they leave with a foggy glow of happiness, perhaps even the sense that their life has changed forever. But they cannot recall the shop. To them, it’s as if it never existed.
What does this show about the effect of the Emporium?
B) People feel sad when they leave.
A) People remember it forever.
C) People want tostay there for eternity.
D) People feel happierbut can’t actually remember the Emporium.
True or False?
Lucien Silver wants Daniel to join him and learn more about the Emporium.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
re-read your favourite books.
Reveal
Like old friends, they're always comforting.
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Ready Steady Read Together
The Nowhere Emporium: 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?
This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyI am a… traveller. Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller.
A) Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver doesn’t know who Doc Brown is.
B) How is the Emporium like a tree?
C) Why can they not allow people to remember what they have seen in the Emporium?
D) Why does Lucien Silver believe that Daniel is special?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.” “Through time?” said Daniel. “Like Doc Brown?” Mr Silver gave him a blank look. “Who?” “Doc Brown,” said Daniel. “You know. Marty McFly. Back to the Future? It’s an old movie I saw at the children’s home. Doc and Marty have a time machine.” Mr Silver shrugged and pointed to the red curtain. “Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie. Wherever I visit, customers are drawn to this place. For a small fee, I allow them to step through the curtain and experience what it's like to fly among the endless stars, to taste the colour of the sunset and explore the very boundaries of imagination. I allow them to visit my Wonders. Of course, I cannot allow my customers to remember what they have seen in the Emporium. Not anymore. Many years ago, when the shop first opened, they remembered everything. But we soon became much too busy to cope with the crowds. Now they leave with a foggy glow of happiness, perhaps even the sense that their life has changed forever. But they cannot recall the shop. To them, it’s as if it never existed.”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
He frowned, and a sudden weight seemed to cause him to sag. “When you ran away, strayed onto that road, you nearly died.” Daniel opened his mouth but found his throat thick and choked. “If that’s true, if I nearly died, then why am I here? How did I get I get out alive?” “Because I interfered,” said Silver. “I saved you Daniel. I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. It was not an easy decision to make. But the day you returned to the Emporium - the moment I realised you remembered being here the previous day - I knew you were special. I knew there must be a reason why you came to my attention.” “What sort of reason?” “I don’t know yet,” said Mr Silva, drumming his fingers on his chin. “But I am offering you the chance of a lifetime, my boy - the chance of a hundred lifetimes. Come with me. Learn about the Emporium. Prove that I was right to interfere. See the world in a way nobody else can. What do you say?”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
globe
boundaries
fee
sag
strayed
interfered
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. 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
globe
Explore
Find Read Talk
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.”
Reveal Vocabulary
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
globe
Your turn
fee
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
boundaries
sag
strayed
interfered
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.” “Through time?” said Daniel. “Like Doc Brown?” Mr Silver gave him a blank look. “Who?” “Doc Brown,” said Daniel. “You know. Marty McFly. Back to the Future? It’s an old movie I saw at the children’s home. Doc and Marty have a time machine.” Mr Silver shrugged and pointed to the red curtain. “Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie. Wherever I visit, customers are drawn to this place. For a small fee, I allow them to step through the curtain and experience what it's like to fly among the endless stars, to taste the colour of the sunset and explore the very boundaries of imagination. I allow them to visit my Wonders. Of course, I cannot allow my customers to remember what they have seen in the Emporium. Not anymore. Many years ago, when the shop first opened, they remembered everything. But we soon became much too busy to cope with the crowds. Now they leave with a foggy glow of happiness, perhaps even the sense that their life has changed forever. But they cannot recall the shop. To them, it’s as if it never existed.”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
He frowned, and a sudden weight seemed to cause him to sag. “When you ran away, strayed onto that road, you nearly died.” Daniel opened his mouth but found his throat thick and choked. “If that’s true, if I nearly died, then why am I here? How did I get I get out alive?” “Because I interfered,” said Silver. “I saved you Daniel. I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. It was not an easy decision to make. But the day you returned to the Emporium - the moment I realised you remembered being here the previous day - I knew you were special. I knew there must be a reason why you came to my attention.” “What sort of reason?” “I don’t know yet,” said Mr Silva, drumming his fingers on his chin. “But I am offering you the chance of a lifetime, my boy - the chance of a hundred lifetimes. Come with me. Learn about the Emporium. Prove that I was right to interfere. See the world in a way nobody else can. What do you say?”
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
“Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie.”
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
“Beyond that curtain,
beyond the many staircases we have just passed,
lie my Wonders.”
“Think of the Emporium as being like a tree.”
“The hall of staircases you just walked through
– that is the trunk.”
“Branching off it are the passageways,
hundreds of them,
where the Wonders lie.”
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
“Beyond that curtain, beyond the many staircases we have just passed, lie my Wonders. Think of the Emporium as being like a tree. The hall of staircases you just walked through - that is the trunk. Branching off it are the passageways, hundreds of them, where the Wonders lie.”
Explore
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. 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...
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Teacher Model Question OnlyI am a… traveller. Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller.
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
“Allow me to explain. My name is Lucien Silver. I am a… traveller. This Emporium is my means of transport. It dances through time, taking me from city to city, town to town, village to village, all over the globe.”
Teacher Model Question Only I am a… traveller. Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller.
Reveal Explainer
This phrase shows that Lucien Silver is a time traveller because he is talking about his Emporium and says it “dances through time.”
Teach
From: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015. 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) Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver doesn’t know who Doc Brown is.
B) How is the Emporium like a tree?
C) Why can they not allow people to remember what they have seen in the Emporium?
D) Why does Lucien Silver believe that Daniel is special?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Find and copy a phrase that shows that Lucien Silver doesn’t know who Doc Brown is.
Text Mark Evidence Mr Silver gave him a blank look
Text Mark Evidence Who?
Text Mark Evidence Mr Silver shrugged
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence the hall of staircases… that is the trunk
the hall of staircases is like the trunk of a tree
B) How is the Emporium like a tree?
Text Mark Evidence branching off it are the passageways
the passageways are like branches
Text Mark Evidence ...where the Wonders lie
the Wonders lie along these passageways (like things growing from branches)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Why can they not allow people to remember what they have seen in the Emporium?
Text Mark Evidence we soon became much too busy to cope with the crowds
because too many people came to the shop / the crowds became too big
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) Why does Lucien Silver believe that Daniel is special?
Text Mark Evidence - the moment I realised you remembered being here the previous day…I knew you were special - to them (everybody else), it’s as if it never existed
Daniel remembered the Emporium when others cannot
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Link Me
Link each word with the correct definition:
A) limits
1) globe
Check
B) the world
2) fee
Click if correct
C) sink or droop
3) boundaries
D) an amount of money paid for something
4) sag
Tick Me
Which of these things can people experience in the Emporium?
Tick all that apply:
A) flying among the stars
B) living a hundred lifetimes
Check
C) travelling to the future
Click if correct
D) tasting the colours of the sunset
Which One's Right?
Now they leave with a foggy glow of happiness, perhaps even the sense that their life has changed forever. But they cannot recall the shop. To them, it’s as if it never existed. What does this show about the effect of the Emporium?
B) People feel sad when they leave.
A) People remember it forever.
C) People want tostay there for eternity.
D) People feel happierbut can’t actually remember the Emporium.
True or False?
Lucien Silver wants Daniel to join him and learn more about the Emporium.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
re-read your favourite books.
Reveal
Like old friends, they're always comforting.
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: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie © 2015 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.