Ready Steady Read Together
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots: Poetry Lesson 1
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?
Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat wasn’t being served at the party?
A) Which finger foods were being served at the party?
B) Why were the snacks called ‘finger food’?
C) Why did the child think he was being tricked?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Finger Food
We went to a party and they said
that there wasn’t going to be a meal
it was just ‘finger food’.
Finger food?
Finger food???
Did they really think
I was going to eat finger food?
Nothing in the whole wide world
would make me eat finger food.
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
“No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said.
“But not fingers,” I said.
“Finger food is not fingers,” they said,
“you just eat it with your fingers,
so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
But they couldn’t trick me like that.
Underneath the crisps and the pretzels
and the nuts and the raisins
I could see fingers.
Hundreds and hundreds of fingers wiggling about
whispering, “Eat me, eat me, eat me.”
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
whole
would
could
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Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
finger food
nibbles
nothing in the whole wide world
trick
underneath
wiggling
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. 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
finger food
Explore
Find Read Talk
Finger Food
We went to a party and they said
that there wasn’t going to be a meal...
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
finger food
Your turn
nothing in the whole wide world
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
nibbles
trick
underneath
wiggling
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Finger Food
We went to a party and they said
that there wasn’t going to be a meal
it was just ‘finger food’.
Finger food?
Finger food???
Did they really think
I was going to eat finger food?
Nothing in the whole wide world
would make me eat finger food.
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
“No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said.
“But not fingers,” I said.
“Finger food is not fingers,” they said,
“you just eat it with your fingers,
so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
But they couldn’t trick me like that.
Underneath the crisps and the pretzels
and the nuts and the raisins
I could see fingers.
Hundreds and hundreds of fingers wiggling about
whispering, “Eat me, eat me, eat me.”
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Finger food? Finger food??? Did they really think I was going to eat finger food? Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food. “No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said.
“But not fingers,” I said.
“Finger food is not fingers,” they said,
“you just eat it with your fingers,
so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
What did you notice?
Phrasing
Smoothness
Expression
Volume
Pace
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Finger food?
Finger food???
Did they really think
I was going to eat finger food?
Nothing in the whole wide world
would make me eat finger food.
“No thank YOU!” I said.
“But you like nibbles,” they said.
“But not fingers,” I said.
“Finger food is not fingers,” they said,
“you just eat it with your fingers,
so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Finger food? Finger food??? Did they really think I was going to eat finger food? Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food. “No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said.
“But not fingers,” I said.
“Finger food is not fingers,” they said,
“you just eat it with your fingers,
so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. 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 OnlyWhat wasn’t being served at the party?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
We went to a party and they said
that there wasn’t going to be a meal
it was just ‘finger food’.
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat wasn’t being served at the party?
I will ‘look around’ for the key word ‘party’. I can see that there will not be a proper sit-down dinner at the party. I can ‘find and take’ the answer: meal.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. 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) Which finger foods were being served at the party?
B) Why were the snacks called ‘finger food’?
C) Why did the child think he was being tricked?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
crisps
A) Which finger foods were being served at the party?
pretzels
nuts
raisins
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Why were the snacks called ‘finger food’?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence you just eat it with your fingers, (so it’s called ‘finger food’)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Why did the child think he was being tricked?
he could see fingers under the snacks
he could hear fingers whispering to eat them
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘underneath’?
Tick Me
Nothing in the whole wide world
would make me eat finger food.
What does this tell us about the child?
Tick one:
A) The child is unsure.
B) The child is determined.
Check
C) The child feels small.
Click if correct
D) The child feels hungry.
Find Me
Find a word that means ‘squirming’:
But they couldn’t trick me like that.
Underneath the crisps and the pretzels
and the nuts and the raisins
I could see fingers.
Hundreds and hundreds of fingers wiggling about
whispering, “Eat me, eat me, eat me.”
Discuss then check
wiggling
Sequence Me
Put the events in the correct order:
A) The child refused to eat finger food.
B) The child saw fingers wiggling in the snacks.
C) The child was told finger food meant snacks.
D) The child was told there would be no meal.
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...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
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: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots: Poetry Lesson 1
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?
Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat wasn’t being served at the party?
A) Which finger foods were being served at the party?
B) Why were the snacks called ‘finger food’?
C) Why did the child think he was being tricked?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Finger Food
We went to a party and they said that there wasn’t going to be a meal it was just ‘finger food’. Finger food? Finger food??? Did they really think I was going to eat finger food? Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food.
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
“No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said. “But not fingers,” I said. “Finger food is not fingers,” they said, “you just eat it with your fingers, so it’s called ‘finger food’.” But they couldn’t trick me like that. Underneath the crisps and the pretzels and the nuts and the raisins I could see fingers. Hundreds and hundreds of fingers wiggling about whispering, “Eat me, eat me, eat me.”
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Common Exception Words
Explore
whole
would
could
Explore
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
finger food
nibbles
nothing in the whole wide world
trick
underneath
wiggling
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. 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
finger food
Explore
Find Read Talk
Finger Food
We went to a party and they said that there wasn’t going to be a meal...
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
finger food
Your turn
nothing in the whole wide world
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
nibbles
trick
underneath
wiggling
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Finger Food
We went to a party and they said that there wasn’t going to be a meal it was just ‘finger food’. Finger food? Finger food??? Did they really think I was going to eat finger food? Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food.
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
“No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said. “But not fingers,” I said. “Finger food is not fingers,” they said, “you just eat it with your fingers, so it’s called ‘finger food’.” But they couldn’t trick me like that. Underneath the crisps and the pretzels and the nuts and the raisins I could see fingers. Hundreds and hundreds of fingers wiggling about whispering, “Eat me, eat me, eat me.”
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Finger food? Finger food??? Did they really think I was going to eat finger food? Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food. “No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said. “But not fingers,” I said. “Finger food is not fingers,” they said, “you just eat it with your fingers, so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
What did you notice?
Phrasing
Smoothness
Expression
Volume
Pace
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Finger food? Finger food???
Did they really think I was going to eat finger food?
Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food.
“No thank YOU!” I said.
“But you like nibbles,” they said.
“But not fingers,” I said.
“Finger food is not fingers,” they said,
“you just eat it with your fingers, so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Finger food? Finger food??? Did they really think I was going to eat finger food? Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food. “No thank YOU!” I said. “But you like nibbles,” they said. “But not fingers,” I said. “Finger food is not fingers,” they said, “you just eat it with your fingers, so it’s called ‘finger food’.”
Explore
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. 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 OnlyWhat wasn’t being served at the party?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
We went to a party and they said that there wasn’t going to be a meal it was just ‘finger food’.
Teacher Model Question OnlyWhat wasn’t being served at the party?
I will ‘look around’ for the key word ‘party’. I can see that there will not be a proper sit-down dinner at the party. I can ‘find and take’ the answer: meal.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016. 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) Which finger foods were being served at the party?
B) Why were the snacks called ‘finger food’?
C) Why did the child think he was being tricked?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
crisps
A) Which finger foods were being served at the party?
pretzels
nuts
raisins
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Why were the snacks called ‘finger food’?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence you just eat it with your fingers, (so it’s called ‘finger food’)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) Why did the child think he was being tricked?
he could see fingers under the snacks
he could hear fingers whispering to eat them
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘underneath’?
Tick Me
Nothing in the whole wide world would make me eat finger food.
What does this tell us about the child?
Tick one:
A) The child is unsure.
B) The child is determined.
Check
C) The child feels small.
Click if correct
D) The child feels hungry.
Find Me
Find a word that means ‘squirming’:
But they couldn’t trick me like that. Underneath the crisps and the pretzels and the nuts and the raisins I could see fingers. Hundreds and hundreds of fingers wiggling about whispering, “Eat me, eat me, eat me.”
Discuss then check
wiggling
Sequence Me
Put the events in the correct order:
A) The child refused to eat finger food.
B) The child saw fingers wiggling in the snacks.
C) The child was told finger food meant snacks.
D) The child was told there would be no meal.
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...
set reading goals.
Reveal
Challenge yourself to read a specific number of books or pages.
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: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen © 2016 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.