Ready Steady Read Together
I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree: Poetry Lesson 2
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
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What do you know and think?
A newborn foal beside her as limp as plasticine…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
B) How are the animals in the two poems different?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
The Foal
by Jean Kenward
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small
but its legs are long and straggly,
it can hardly stand at all.
The grey mare, gently breathing
there, in the lush, wet green,
has a new-born foal beside her
as limp as plasticine. He rose, as we stopped to wonder, and wobbled a little bit, as if he were lately come to the world and wasn’t too sure of it. Then he turned, and touched his mother, searching her drowsed and dim for the warm, sweet milk she carried. What name shall we give to him?
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Swaybacks in the Springtime
by Kit Wright
Two old horses, piebald swaybacks,
Mooching down by the chestnut trees:
Sharing a field in spring, though these
Are the winter days of their lives.
Two old horses, put out to grass here,
Suddenly break, frisk into a run
And their tough manes gleam in the rising sun
In the winter days of their lives.
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
straggly
drowsed and dim
mare
piebald swaybacks
mooching
gleam
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. 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
straggly
Explore
Find Read Talk
The Foal
by Jean Kenward
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small
but its legs are long and straggly,
it can hardly stand at all.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
straggly
Your turn
mare
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
drowsed and dim
piebald swaybacks
mooching
gleam
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
The Foal
by Jean Kenward
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small
but its legs are long and straggly,
it can hardly stand at all.
The grey mare, gently breathing
there, in the lush, wet green,
has a new-born foal beside her
as limp as plasticine. He rose, as we stopped to wonder, and wobbled a little bit, as if he were lately come to the world and wasn’t too sure of it. Then he turned, and touched his mother, searching her drowsed and dim for the warm, sweet milk she carried. What name shall we give to him?
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Swaybacks in the Springtime
by Kit Wright
Two old horses, piebald swaybacks,
Mooching down by the chestnut trees:
Sharing a field in spring, though these
Are the winter days of their lives.
Two old horses, put out to grass here,
Suddenly break, frisk into a run
And their tough manes gleam in the rising sun
In the winter days of their lives.
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small
but its legs are long and straggly,
it can hardly stand at all.
The grey mare, gently breathing
there, in the lush, wet green,
has a new-born foal beside her
as limp as plasticine.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small
but its legs are long and straggly,
it can hardly stand at all.
The grey mare, gently breathing
there, in the lush, wet green,
has a new-born foal beside her
as limp as plasticine.
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small
but its legs are long and straggly,
it can hardly stand at all.
The grey mare, gently breathing
there, in the lush, wet green,
has a new-born foal beside her
as limp as plasticine.
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small...
...Sharing a field in spring, though these Are the winter days of their lives.
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
Reveal Explainer
The words ‘meadow’ and ‘field’ suggest that both poems describe animals in outdoor settings.
Teach
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. 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) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
B) How are the animals in the two poems different?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – the grey mare…has a new-born foal beside her
Poem 2 – two old horses
both poems are about horses / two horses
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – the grey mare…has a new-born foal beside her
Poem 2 – these are the winter days of their lives - two old horses, put out to grass here
both poems focus on a stage of life
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – a new-born foal - lately come to the world
Poem 2 – two old horses - these are the winter days of their lives - two old horses, put out to grass here
the ages of the horses are different
B) How are the animals in the two poems different?
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – its legs are long and straggly - it can hardly stand at all - a new-born foal…as limp as plasticine - he (foal) rose…and wobbled a little bit
Poem 2 – two old horses…suddenly break, frisk into a run
the foal is weak and the old horses are strong
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘piebald’?
Sequence Me
Put the events from The Foal in the correct order:
A) The foal stood up and wobbled a bit.
B) The foal drowsily looked for milk to drink.
C) The newborn foal was on the ground next to his mother.
D) The foal looked uncertain about the world.
Click if correct
Check
Find Me
Find a word that suggests that the two old horses are still playful:
Two old horses, put out to grass here,
Suddenly break, frisk into a run
And their tough manes gleam in the rising sun
In the winter days of their lives.
Discuss then check
frisk
Match Me
Match each word with its correct definition:
3) mooching
4) gleam
1) straggly
2) swayback
A) with a shine or glow
B) wandering about aimlessly
C) a horse with a sagging back
D) thin, weak or uneven
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...
memorise a poem.
Reveal
Practise reciting a favourite poem from memory.
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: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree: Poetry 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?
A newborn foal beside her as limp as plasticine…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
B) How are the animals in the two poems different?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
The Foal
by Jean Kenward
There’s something new in the meadow, it’s soft, and brown and small but its legs are long and straggly, it can hardly stand at all. The grey mare, gently breathing there, in the lush, wet green, has a new-born foal beside her as limp as plasticine. He rose, as we stopped to wonder, and wobbled a little bit, as if he were lately come to the world and wasn’t too sure of it. Then he turned, and touched his mother, searching her drowsed and dim for the warm, sweet milk she carried. What name shall we give to him?
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Swaybacks in the Springtime
by Kit Wright
Two old horses, piebald swaybacks, Mooching down by the chestnut trees: Sharing a field in spring, though these Are the winter days of their lives. Two old horses, put out to grass here, Suddenly break, frisk into a run And their tough manes gleam in the rising sun In the winter days of their lives.
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
straggly
drowsed and dim
mare
piebald swaybacks
mooching
gleam
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. 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
straggly
Explore
Find Read Talk
The Foal
by Jean Kenward
There’s something new in the meadow, it’s soft, and brown and small but its legs are long and straggly, it can hardly stand at all.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
straggly
Your turn
mare
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
drowsed and dim
piebald swaybacks
mooching
gleam
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
The Foal
by Jean Kenward
There’s something new in the meadow, it’s soft, and brown and small but its legs are long and straggly, it can hardly stand at all. The grey mare, gently breathing there, in the lush, wet green, has a new-born foal beside her as limp as plasticine. He rose, as we stopped to wonder, and wobbled a little bit, as if he were lately come to the world and wasn’t too sure of it. Then he turned, and touched his mother, searching her drowsed and dim for the warm, sweet milk she carried. What name shall we give to him?
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Swaybacks in the Springtime
by Kit Wright
Two old horses, piebald swaybacks, Mooching down by the chestnut trees: Sharing a field in spring, though these Are the winter days of their lives. Two old horses, put out to grass here, Suddenly break, frisk into a run And their tough manes gleam in the rising sun In the winter days of their lives.
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
There’s something new in the meadow, it’s soft, and brown and small but its legs are long and straggly, it can hardly stand at all. The grey mare, gently breathing there, in the lush, wet green, has a new-born foal beside her as limp as plasticine.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
There’s something new in the meadow,
it’s soft, and brown and small
but its legs are long and straggly,
it can hardly stand at all.
The grey mare, gently breathing
there, in the lush, wet green,
has a new-born foal beside her
as limp as plasticine.
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
There’s something new in the meadow, it’s soft, and brown and small but its legs are long and straggly, it can hardly stand at all. The grey mare, gently breathing there, in the lush, wet green, has a new-born foal beside her as limp as plasticine.
Explore
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
There’s something new in the meadow, it’s soft, and brown and small...
...Sharing a field in spring, though these Are the winter days of their lives.
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
Reveal Explainer
The words ‘meadow’ and ‘field’ suggest that both poems describe animals in outdoor settings.
Teach
From: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018. 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) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
B) How are the animals in the two poems different?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – the grey mare…has a new-born foal beside her Poem 2 – two old horses
both poems are about horses / two horses
A) How are the animals in the two poems the same?
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – the grey mare…has a new-born foal beside her Poem 2 – these are the winter days of their lives - two old horses, put out to grass here
both poems focus on a stage of life
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – a new-born foal - lately come to the world Poem 2 – two old horses - these are the winter days of their lives - two old horses, put out to grass here
the ages of the horses are different
B) How are the animals in the two poems different?
Text Mark Evidence Poem 1 – its legs are long and straggly - it can hardly stand at all - a new-born foal…as limp as plasticine - he (foal) rose…and wobbled a little bit Poem 2 – two old horses…suddenly break, frisk into a run
the foal is weak and the old horses are strong
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘piebald’?
Sequence Me
Put the events from The Foal in the correct order:
A) The foal stood up and wobbled a bit.
B) The foal drowsily looked for milk to drink.
C) The newborn foal was on the ground next to his mother.
D) The foal looked uncertain about the world.
Click if correct
Check
Find Me
Find a word that suggests that the two old horses are still playful:
Two old horses, put out to grass here, Suddenly break, frisk into a run And their tough manes gleam in the rising sun In the winter days of their lives.
Discuss then check
frisk
Match Me
Match each word with its correct definition:
3) mooching
4) gleam
1) straggly
2) swayback
A) with a shine or glow
B) wandering about aimlessly
C) a horse with a sagging back
D) thin, weak or uneven
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...
memorise a poem.
Reveal
Practise reciting a favourite poem from memory.
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: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters © 2018 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.