Ready Steady Read Together
There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question: 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?
Guard bees are there to prevent unwanted intruders.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
B) Why might other animals avoid eating ladybirds?
C) What is the name of the liquid that arthropods have instead of blood?
D) What group of animals are insects, spiders and shellfish part of?
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Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
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Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
unwanted intruders
reflex bleeding
steer clear
smells horrendous
substance
absolutely appalling
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From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 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
unwanted intruders
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Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
unwanted intruders
steer clear
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
reflex bleeding
smells horrendous
substance
absolutely appalling
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
When a bee tries to enter the hive, guard bees will sniff them with their antenna and, if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time. Occasionally they sting their nestmates by accident. Emerging queen bees will also often battle other queen bees, stinging them multiple times until they die. A Royal Rumble!
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
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From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
When a bee tries to enter the hive, guard bees will sniff them with their antenna
and, if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time.
Occasionally they sting their nestmates by accident.
Emerging queen bees will also often battle other queen bees,
stinging them multiple times until they die. A Royal Rumble!
Explore
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
When a bee tries to enter the hive, guard bees will sniff them with their antenna and, if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time. Occasionally they sting their nestmates by accident. Emerging queen bees will also often battle other queen bees, stinging them multiple times until they die. A Royal Rumble!
Explore
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 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) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Do bees sting other bees?
They certainly do, mainly to stop other bees taking their nectar.
Within a hive, different bees have different jobs. Guard bees are there to prevent unwanted intruders.
A) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
Reveal Explainer
I ‘look around’ the text for why guard bees sting other bees. The text explains that guard bees check bees entering the hive and sting them if they are not recognised as part of the hive. I can ‘find and take’ the answer: to prevent unwanted intruders.
Teach
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 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) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
B) Why might other animals avoid eating ladybirds?
C) What is the name of the liquid that arthropods have instead of blood?
D) What group of animals are insects, spiders and shellfish part of?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time
to stop bees they do not recognise entering the hive
A) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
Text Mark Evidence guard bees will sniff them with their antenna
because they check incoming bees and treat unknown bees as intruders
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence ladybirds’ bodies produce chemicals… which make them taste disgusting
they taste disgusting / are poisonous
B) Why might other animals avoid eating ladybirds?
Text Mark Evidence red and black colour scheme is a warning: don't eat me
they use warning colours to signal danger
Text Mark Evidence reflex bleeding… haemolymph is full of alkaloids and it smells horrendous
they release unpleasant chemicals when threatened
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What is the name of the liquid that arthropods have instead of blood?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence haemolymph
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) What group of animals are insects, spiders and shellfish part of?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence arthropods
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Tick Me
What is the purpose of ladybird spots?
Tick one:
A) to show their age
B) to warn predators
Check
C) to help them hide in soil
Click if correct
D) to attract other insects
Match Me
Match each word to the correct meaning:
3) substance
4) steer clear
1) unwanted
2) horrendous
C) avoid or stay away from something
A) a type of material or liquid
B) extremely unpleasant or very bad
D) not wanted or not welcome
Click if correct
Check
Which One's Right?
What colour is haemolymph usually described as?
B) purple
A) bright red
C) pale yellowy-greeny-bluey
C) orange
True or False?
Queen bees never fight each other.
True
False
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
use theclues.
Reveal
Use the context to figure out unfamiliar words.
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: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Transcript
Ready Steady Read Together
There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question: 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?
Guard bees are there to prevent unwanted intruders.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
B) Why might other animals avoid eating ladybirds?
C) What is the name of the liquid that arthropods have instead of blood?
D) What group of animals are insects, spiders and shellfish part of?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
unwanted intruders
reflex bleeding
steer clear
smells horrendous
substance
absolutely appalling
Explore
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 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
unwanted intruders
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Your turn
unwanted intruders
steer clear
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
reflex bleeding
smells horrendous
substance
absolutely appalling
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
When a bee tries to enter the hive, guard bees will sniff them with their antenna and, if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time. Occasionally they sting their nestmates by accident. Emerging queen bees will also often battle other queen bees, stinging them multiple times until they die. A Royal Rumble!
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
When a bee tries to enter the hive, guard bees will sniff them with their antenna
and, if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time.
Occasionally they sting their nestmates by accident.
Emerging queen bees will also often battle other queen bees,
stinging them multiple times until they die. A Royal Rumble!
Explore
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
When a bee tries to enter the hive, guard bees will sniff them with their antenna and, if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time. Occasionally they sting their nestmates by accident. Emerging queen bees will also often battle other queen bees, stinging them multiple times until they die. A Royal Rumble!
Explore
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 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) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Do bees sting other bees? They certainly do, mainly to stop other bees taking their nectar. Within a hive, different bees have different jobs. Guard bees are there to prevent unwanted intruders.
A) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
Reveal Explainer
I ‘look around’ the text for why guard bees sting other bees. The text explains that guard bees check bees entering the hive and sting them if they are not recognised as part of the hive. I can ‘find and take’ the answer: to prevent unwanted intruders.
Teach
From: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 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) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
B) Why might other animals avoid eating ladybirds?
C) What is the name of the liquid that arthropods have instead of blood?
D) What group of animals are insects, spiders and shellfish part of?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence if they don't recognise them, it's often stinging time
to stop bees they do not recognise entering the hive
A) Why do guard bees sting other bees?
Text Mark Evidence guard bees will sniff them with their antenna
because they check incoming bees and treat unknown bees as intruders
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence ladybirds’ bodies produce chemicals… which make them taste disgusting
they taste disgusting / are poisonous
B) Why might other animals avoid eating ladybirds?
Text Mark Evidence red and black colour scheme is a warning: don't eat me
they use warning colours to signal danger
Text Mark Evidence reflex bleeding… haemolymph is full of alkaloids and it smells horrendous
they release unpleasant chemicals when threatened
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What is the name of the liquid that arthropods have instead of blood?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence haemolymph
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) What group of animals are insects, spiders and shellfish part of?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence arthropods
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Tick Me
What is the purpose of ladybird spots?
Tick one:
A) to show their age
B) to warn predators
Check
C) to help them hide in soil
Click if correct
D) to attract other insects
Match Me
Match each word to the correct meaning:
3) substance
4) steer clear
1) unwanted
2) horrendous
C) avoid or stay away from something
A) a type of material or liquid
B) extremely unpleasant or very bad
D) not wanted or not welcome
Click if correct
Check
Which One's Right?
What colour is haemolymph usually described as?
B) purple
A) bright red
C) pale yellowy-greeny-bluey
C) orange
True or False?
Queen bees never fight each other.
True
False
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
use theclues.
Reveal
Use the context to figure out unfamiliar words.
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: There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question by Mike Rampton © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.