Ready Steady Read Together
Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur: 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?
Forests of trees are hugely important for protecting biodiversity and literally producing the air that we breathe.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) In what ways are trees important?
B) Which tree is the tallest in the world?
C) Which tree is the widest in the world?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
evoke
categorise
resonating
lofty specimens
distinguishing characteristic
extracted
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 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
evoke
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
evoke
Your turn
resonating
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
categorise
lofty specimens
distinguishing characteristic
extracted
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Trees have provided humans with many things: fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth. Wooden utensils have been carved from wood, and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees. You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Trees have provided humans with many things:
fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food,
and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth.
Wooden utensils have been carved from wood,
and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees.
You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Trees have provided humans with many things: fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth. Wooden utensils have been carved from wood, and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees. You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 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) In what ways are trees important?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Their roots give them foundation, while their trunks, branches and leaves reach high into the sky. Forests of trees are hugely important for both protecting biodiversity and literally producing the air that we breathe.
A) In what ways are trees important?
Reveal Explainer
This shows that trees are important because they help living things survive. The phrase ‘protecting biodiversity’ means that forests help to keep many different plants and animals safe and alive.
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 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) In what ways are trees important?
B) Which tree is the tallest in the world?
C) Which tree is the widest in the world?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence producing the air we breathe
produce oxygen
Text Mark Evidence trees have provided humans with…fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth
provide things humans need to survive
A) In what ways are trees important?
Text Mark Evidence wooden utensils have been carved from wood
provide material to make tools
Text Mark Evidence medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees
provide useful items
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence you wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp
used to make paper
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Pacific Coast redwoods
B) Which tree is the tallest in the world?
Text Mark Evidence Sequoia sempervirens
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Mexican swamp cypress
C) Which tree is the widest in the world?
Text Mark Evidence El Gigante
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘lofty’?
Which One's Right?
Another distinguishing characteristic is whether the tree keeps its leaves all year…
Which answer best completes the sentence?
The words ‘distinguishing characteristic’ is something that makes the tree seem…
B) tall.
A) wide.
C) old.
D) different.
Tick Me
Which are ways that trees have been sorted into different types?
Tick two:
A) by their size
B) by hard or soft wood
Check
C) by their age
Click if correct
D) by whether they keep their leaves all year
Find Me
Find the word which means ‘removed’:
Trees have provided humans with many things: fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth. Wooden utensils have been carved from wood, and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees. You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
Discuss then check
extracted
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
read every day.
Reveal
Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference!
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 adpated for accessibility from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur: 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?
Forests of trees are hugely important for protecting biodiversity and literally producing the air that we breathe.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) In what ways are trees important?
B) Which tree is the tallest in the world?
C) Which tree is the widest in the world?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
evoke
categorise
resonating
lofty specimens
distinguishing characteristic
extracted
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 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
evoke
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
evoke
Your turn
resonating
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
categorise
lofty specimens
distinguishing characteristic
extracted
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Trees have provided humans with many things: fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth. Wooden utensils have been carved from wood, and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees. You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Trees have provided humans with many things:
fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food,
and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth.
Wooden utensils have been carved from wood,
and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees.
You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Trees have provided humans with many things: fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth. Wooden utensils have been carved from wood, and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees. You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 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) In what ways are trees important?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Their roots give them foundation, while their trunks, branches and leaves reach high into the sky. Forests of trees are hugely important for both protecting biodiversity and literally producing the air that we breathe.
A) In what ways are trees important?
Reveal Explainer
This shows that trees are important because they help living things survive. The phrase ‘protecting biodiversity’ means that forests help to keep many different plants and animals safe and alive.
From: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 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) In what ways are trees important?
B) Which tree is the tallest in the world?
C) Which tree is the widest in the world?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence producing the air we breathe
produce oxygen
Text Mark Evidence trees have provided humans with…fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth
provide things humans need to survive
A) In what ways are trees important?
Text Mark Evidence wooden utensils have been carved from wood
provide material to make tools
Text Mark Evidence medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees
provide useful items
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence you wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp
used to make paper
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Pacific Coast redwoods
B) Which tree is the tallest in the world?
Text Mark Evidence Sequoia sempervirens
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Mexican swamp cypress
C) Which tree is the widest in the world?
Text Mark Evidence El Gigante
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘lofty’?
Which One's Right?
Another distinguishing characteristic is whether the tree keeps its leaves all year… Which answer best completes the sentence? The words ‘distinguishing characteristic’ is something that makes the tree seem…
B) tall.
A) wide.
C) old.
D) different.
Tick Me
Which are ways that trees have been sorted into different types?
Tick two:
A) by their size
B) by hard or soft wood
Check
C) by their age
Click if correct
D) by whether they keep their leaves all year
Find Me
Find the word which means ‘removed’:
Trees have provided humans with many things: fuel for warmth, fruit and nuts for food, and bark and leaves have been woven for cloth. Wooden utensils have been carved from wood, and even medicines, dyes and spices have been extracted from trees. You wouldn’t be reading this book without the paper produced from wood pulp.
Discuss then check
extracted
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
read every day.
Reveal
Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference!
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 adpated for accessibility from: Feather, Flower, Forest, Fur by Sarah Walden and Caroline Rowlands © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.