Ready Steady Read Together
Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor: 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?
Like 2 + 2 = 7, something didn’t just add up.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
B) How did Leonora know there was trouble?
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
C) How was the sound described?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Leonora’s thoughts often skipped across the horizon to the world far beyond. Just where did her Uncle Luther go to? And why could she never go with him? Like 2 + 2 = 7, something just didn’t add up.
She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day.
At last they reached the extra-fun-funicular railway she’d built down the wooded gully into the cove. She was just about to step into the repurposed tea-crate passenger car, when Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating. Leonora shuddered.
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
She knew they were tuned for trouble, like a seismograph detecting earthquakes. He stood on his hind legs and sniffed the salty air. Then a distant gargling sound invited itself into their ears without even asking. It didn’t sound like anything she’d heard before.
It didn’t sound human.
It didn’t sound good.
“FNERGLE!!”
“BLLAAAAARG!!”
“FROOOOOSH!!”
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
could
last
children
any
hour
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
bleak, gloomy place
mainland
banned
vibrating
shuddered
gargling sound
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. 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
mainland
Explore
Find Read Talk
She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing?
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
mainland
Your turn
banned
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
bleak, gloomy place
vibrating
shuddered
gargling sound
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Leonora’s thoughts often skipped across the horizon to the world far beyond. Just where did her Uncle Luther go to? And why could she never go with him? Like 2 + 2 = 7, something just didn’t add up.
She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day.
At last they reached the extra-fun-funicular railway she’d built down the wooded gully into the cove. She was just about to step into the repurposed tea-crate passenger car, when Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating. Leonora shuddered.
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
She knew they were tuned for trouble, like a seismograph detecting earthquakes. He stood on his hind legs and sniffed the salty air. Then a distant gargling sound invited itself into their ears without even asking. It didn’t sound like anything she’d heard before.
It didn’t sound human.
It didn’t sound good.
“FNERGLE!!”
“BLLAAAAARG!!”
“FROOOOOSH!!”
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day...
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Was it true that children were banned from laughing?
Was school really twenty-four hours a day?
And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties?
She had no idea.
She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place
if her uncle liked spending so much time there.
But she longed to see it for herself.
One day...
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day...
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing?
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
Reveal Explainer
This shows that Leonora thinks that one of the rules on the mainland was that children were not allowed to laugh.
Teach
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
B) How did Leonora know there was trouble?
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
C) How was the sound described?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
school was twenty-four hours a day
you could be put in prison for eating sweeties
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) How did Leonora know there was trouble?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a distant gargling sound
B) Who lives in the lighthouse with Leonora?
Text Mark Evidence it didn’t sound like anything she’d heard before
Text Mark Evidence it didn’t sound human
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence it didn’t sound good
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘mainland’?
Find Me
Find two words that mean ‘to shake’:
At last they reached the extra-fun-funicular railway she’d built down the wooded gully into the cove. She was just about to step into the repurposed tea-crate passenger car, when Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating. Leonora shuddered.
1 Discuss then check
2 Discuss then check
shuddered
vibrating
Match Me
Match each word to its correct meaning:
4) gargling
1) mainland
2) banned
3) gloomy
B) to make a bubbling, wet sound
D) the larger part of country, not the islands
A) sad and dark
C) not allowed
Click if correct
Check
Sequence Me
Put the events in the correct order:
A) Leonora wondered what the mainland was like.
B) Leonora heard a strange, gargling sound.
C) Leonora reached the railway she’d built.
D) Twitchy’s whiskers started vibrating.
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
turn the story into art.
Reveal
Draw scenes or characters from the book.
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: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor: 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?
Like 2 + 2 = 7, something didn’t just add up.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
B) How did Leonora know there was trouble?
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
C) How was the sound described?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Leonora’s thoughts often skipped across the horizon to the world far beyond. Just where did her Uncle Luther go to? And why could she never go with him? Like 2 + 2 = 7, something just didn’t add up. She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day. At last they reached the extra-fun-funicular railway she’d built down the wooded gully into the cove. She was just about to step into the repurposed tea-crate passenger car, when Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating. Leonora shuddered.
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
She knew they were tuned for trouble, like a seismograph detecting earthquakes. He stood on his hind legs and sniffed the salty air. Then a distant gargling sound invited itself into their ears without even asking. It didn’t sound like anything she’d heard before. It didn’t sound human. It didn’t sound good.
“FNERGLE!!” “BLLAAAAARG!!” “FROOOOOSH!!”
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
could
last
children
any
hour
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
bleak, gloomy place
mainland
banned
vibrating
shuddered
gargling sound
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. 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
mainland
Explore
Find Read Talk
She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing?
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
mainland
Your turn
banned
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
bleak, gloomy place
vibrating
shuddered
gargling sound
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Leonora’s thoughts often skipped across the horizon to the world far beyond. Just where did her Uncle Luther go to? And why could she never go with him? Like 2 + 2 = 7, something just didn’t add up. She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day. At last they reached the extra-fun-funicular railway she’d built down the wooded gully into the cove. She was just about to step into the repurposed tea-crate passenger car, when Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating. Leonora shuddered.
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
She knew they were tuned for trouble, like a seismograph detecting earthquakes. He stood on his hind legs and sniffed the salty air. Then a distant gargling sound invited itself into their ears without even asking. It didn’t sound like anything she’d heard before. It didn’t sound human. It didn’t sound good.
“FNERGLE!!” “BLLAAAAARG!!” “FROOOOOSH!!”
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day...
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Was it true that children were banned from laughing?
Was school really twenty-four hours a day?
And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties?
She had no idea.
She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place
if her uncle liked spending so much time there.
But she longed to see it for herself.
One day...
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Was it true that children were banned from laughing? Was school really twenty-four hours a day? And could you actually be put in prison for eating sweeties? She had no idea. She did know the mainland must be a bleak, gloomy place if her uncle liked spending so much time there. But she longed to see it for herself. One day...
Explore
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
She tried to imagine where he was, what he was doing, what the mainland was like. Was it true that children were banned from laughing?
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
Reveal Explainer
This shows that Leonora thinks that one of the rules on the mainland was that children were not allowed to laugh.
Teach
From: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
B) How did Leonora know there was trouble?
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
C) How was the sound described?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) What rules does Leonora think are on the mainland?
school was twenty-four hours a day
you could be put in prison for eating sweeties
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) How did Leonora know there was trouble?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a distant gargling sound
B) Who lives in the lighthouse with Leonora?
Text Mark Evidence it didn’t sound like anything she’d heard before
Text Mark Evidence it didn’t sound human
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence it didn’t sound good
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘mainland’?
Find Me
Find two words that mean ‘to shake’:
At last they reached the extra-fun-funicular railway she’d built down the wooded gully into the cove. She was just about to step into the repurposed tea-crate passenger car, when Twitchy’s magnificent whiskers started vibrating. Leonora shuddered.
1 Discuss then check
2 Discuss then check
shuddered
vibrating
Match Me
Match each word to its correct meaning:
4) gargling
1) mainland
2) banned
3) gloomy
B) to make a bubbling, wet sound
D) the larger part of country, not the islands
A) sad and dark
C) not allowed
Click if correct
Check
Sequence Me
Put the events in the correct order:
A) Leonora wondered what the mainland was like.
B) Leonora heard a strange, gargling sound.
C) Leonora reached the railway she’d built.
D) Twitchy’s whiskers started vibrating.
Click if correct
Check
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
turn the story into art.
Reveal
Draw scenes or characters from the book.
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: Leonora Bolt, Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt © 2022 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.