Ready Steady Read Together
There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question: Non-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?
The issue with a skunk’s spray is that it's so pungent.
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 might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
B) Which fruit is described as having a very strong smell?
C) List all four foods mentioned in the text that some people might find disgusting if they didn’t grow up eating them.
D) Name the five different flavours your taste buds can detect.
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.
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!
grotesquely malodorous
pungent
evolutionary reasons
legendary
fermented
receptors
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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
grotesquely malodorous
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
grotesquely malodorous
evolutionary reasons
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
pungent
legendary
fermented
receptors
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.
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...
Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently. Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other, and our reactions to smells or mostly learned - food that might smell delicious to you make completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
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
Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently.
Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other,
and our reactions to smells or mostly learned -
food that might smell delicious to you make completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
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
Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently. Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other, and our reactions to smells or mostly learned - food that might smell delicious to you make completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
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: Read Between the Lines
A) Why might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
What’s the worst smell in the world?
Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently. Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other, and our reactions to smells or mostly learned – food that might smell delicious to you might completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
A) Why might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
Some smells or tastes might be disliked by lots of people because people experience smells differently, so the same smell can seem nice to one person but unpleasant to another.
Reveal Explainer
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 might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
B) Which fruit is described as having a very strong smell?
Pairedreading first
C) List all four foods mentioned in the text that some people might find disgusting if they didn’t grow up eating them.
D) Name the five different flavours your taste buds can detect.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - memory and smell are strongly connected - reactions to smells are mostly learned
reactions to smells are learned from experience
A) Why might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
Text Mark Evidence enjoying the smell of rotten food makes you more likely to eat it and then get incredibly ill
some smells may be linked to danger
Text Mark Evidence more likely to find an unfamiliar flavour disgusting than something they’ve been fed from childhood
unfamiliar flavours are more likely to be disliked
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence bitterness is the one most likely to upset people… many poisonous substances are bitter
bitterness can be linked to poison
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Which fruit is described as having a very strong smell?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence durian
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence fermented shark
C) List all four foods mentioned in the text that some people might find disgusting if they didn’t grow up eating them.
Text Mark Evidence gherkins
Text Mark Evidence blue cheese
Text Mark Evidence jellied eels
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence sweet
D) Name the five different flavours your taste buds can detect.
Text Mark Evidence salty
Text Mark Evidence sour
Text Mark Evidence unami (savoury)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence bitter
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘fermented’?
Which One's Right?
Which answer best completes the sentence?
A smell that is described as ‘pungent’ is usually...
A) very strong
B) completely silent
C) always pleasant
D) invisible
True or False?
People always enjoy unfamiliar foods more than foods they grew up eating.
True
False
Match Me
Match each word with its correct definition:
3) fermenetd
2) legendary
4) receptors
1) pungent
C) tiny parts of the body that detect things like taste or smell
B) very famous or well-known
A) having a very strong smell
D) food that has been changed by bacteria over time (often to preserve it)
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...
read every day.
Reveal
Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference!
Copyright Notice
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Ready Steady Read Together
There's No Such Thing as a Silly Question: Non-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?
The issue with a skunk’s spray is that it's so pungent.
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 might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
B) Which fruit is described as having a very strong smell?
C) List all four foods mentioned in the text that some people might find disgusting if they didn’t grow up eating them.
D) Name the five different flavours your taste buds can detect.
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.
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!
grotesquely malodorous
pungent
evolutionary reasons
legendary
fermented
receptors
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
grotesquely malodorous
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
grotesquely malodorous
evolutionary reasons
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
pungent
legendary
fermented
receptors
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.
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...
Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently. Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other, and our reactions to smells or mostly learned - food that might smell delicious to you make completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
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
Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently.
Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other,
and our reactions to smells or mostly learned -
food that might smell delicious to you make completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
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
Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently. Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other, and our reactions to smells or mostly learned - food that might smell delicious to you make completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
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: Read Between the Lines
A) Why might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
What’s the worst smell in the world? Smells are very individual things, which everyone experiences slightly differently. Memory and smell are strongly connected to each other, and our reactions to smells or mostly learned – food that might smell delicious to you might completely gross someone else out if they haven't grown up eating it.
A) Why might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
Some smells or tastes might be disliked by lots of people because people experience smells differently, so the same smell can seem nice to one person but unpleasant to another.
Reveal Explainer
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 might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
B) Which fruit is described as having a very strong smell?
Pairedreading first
C) List all four foods mentioned in the text that some people might find disgusting if they didn’t grow up eating them.
D) Name the five different flavours your taste buds can detect.
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - memory and smell are strongly connected - reactions to smells are mostly learned
reactions to smells are learned from experience
A) Why might some smells or tastes be disliked by lots of people?
Text Mark Evidence enjoying the smell of rotten food makes you more likely to eat it and then get incredibly ill
some smells may be linked to danger
Text Mark Evidence more likely to find an unfamiliar flavour disgusting than something they’ve been fed from childhood
unfamiliar flavours are more likely to be disliked
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence bitterness is the one most likely to upset people… many poisonous substances are bitter
bitterness can be linked to poison
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Which fruit is described as having a very strong smell?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence durian
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence fermented shark
C) List all four foods mentioned in the text that some people might find disgusting if they didn’t grow up eating them.
Text Mark Evidence gherkins
Text Mark Evidence blue cheese
Text Mark Evidence jellied eels
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence sweet
D) Name the five different flavours your taste buds can detect.
Text Mark Evidence salty
Text Mark Evidence sour
Text Mark Evidence unami (savoury)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence bitter
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘fermented’?
Which One's Right?
Which answer best completes the sentence? A smell that is described as ‘pungent’ is usually...
A) very strong
B) completely silent
C) always pleasant
D) invisible
True or False?
People always enjoy unfamiliar foods more than foods they grew up eating.
True
False
Match Me
Match each word with its correct definition:
3) fermenetd
2) legendary
4) receptors
1) pungent
C) tiny parts of the body that detect things like taste or smell
B) very famous or well-known
A) having a very strong smell
D) food that has been changed by bacteria over time (often to preserve it)
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...
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 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.