Ready Steady Read Together
50 Ways to Score a Goal: 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?
But this is the big one. I've waited all day.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How important is football to the speaker?
B) Which match is the speaker watching in the first verse?
C) What does “Mother Nature” mean in the poem?
D) Why does the speaker say “Just ten minutes more”?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside
and spend time with Mother Nature.
But what can I do? It's out of my hands:
Nigeria are playing Croatia.
Eating on your own isn't much fun.
Some say there's nothing bleaker.
But this is the big one. I've waited all day.
Switzerland – Costa Rica.
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today.
Please save me a piece of cake.
She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran:
there's an awful lot at stake.
Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow.
I'll get revising as soon as I can.
Just ten minutes more (plus time added on)
of Colombia versus Japan.
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
Mother Nature
bleaker
it's out of my hands
awful lot at stake
exams
revising
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. 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
Mother Nature
Explore
Find Read Talk
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside
and spend time with Mother Nature.
But what can I do? It's out of my hands:
Nigeria are playing Croatia.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Mother Nature
Your turn
it's out of my hands
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
bleaker
awful lot at stake
exams
revising
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside
and spend time with Mother Nature.
But what can I do? It's out of my hands:
Nigeria are playing Croatia.
Eating on your own isn't much fun.
Some say there's nothing bleaker.
But this is the big one. I've waited all day.
Switzerland – Costa Rica.
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today.
Please save me a piece of cake.
She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran:
there's an awful lot at stake.
Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow.
I'll get revising as soon as I can.
Just ten minutes more (plus time added on)
of Colombia versus Japan.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today. Please save me a piece of cake.
She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran:
there's an awful lot at stake.
Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow.
I'll get revising as soon as I can.
Just ten minutes more (plus time added on)
of Colombia versus Japan.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today.
Please save me a piece of cake.
She'll understand, it's Morocco - Iran:
there's an awful lot at stake.
Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow.
I'll get revising as soon as I can.
Just ten minutes more (plus time added on)
of Colombia versus Japan.
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today. Please save me a piece of cake.
She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran:
there's an awful lot at stake.
Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow.
I'll get revising as soon as I can.
Just ten minutes more (plus time added on)
of Colombia versus Japan.
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How important is football to the speaker?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside
and spend time with Mother Nature.
But what can I do? It's out of my hands:
Nigeria are playing Croatia.
A) How important is football to the speaker?
Reveal Explainer
The speaker seems very passionate about football because they choose watching a football match over going outside and spending time in nature. This suggests football is one of the most important things to them.
Teach
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. 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 important is football to the speaker?
B) Which match is the speaker watching in the first verse?
C) What does “Mother Nature” mean in the poem?
D) Why does the speaker say “Just ten minutes more”?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - eating on your own isn’t much fun…but this is the big one - I’ve waited all day
football is more important than eating alone
A) How important is football to the speaker?
Text Mark Evidence sorry to miss Gran’s party today
football is more important than family events
Text Mark Evidence - I’ll get revising as soon as I can - just ten minutes more…of Colombia versus Japan
football is more important than schoolwork
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Which match is the speaker watching in the first verse?
Text Mark Evidence Nigeria are playing Croatia
Nigeria versus Croatia
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What does “Mother Nature” mean in the poem?
Text Mark Evidence go outside and spend time with Mother Nature
the outdoors / nature outside
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence just ten minutes more
wants to keep watching the football match
D) Why does the speaker say “Just ten minutes more”?
Text Mark Evidence of Colombia versus Japan
does not want to stop watching Colombia versus Japan
Text Mark Evidence I’ll get revising as soon as I can
is delaying revision for exams
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘bleaker’?
Tick Me
Tick two things the speaker misses or delays because of football.
Tick two:
A) going outside
B) buying a present
Check
C) Gran’s party
Click if correct
D) feeding the dog
Match Me
Matchthe word or phrase to its meaning:
4) out of my hands
3) at stake
1) exams
2) bleaker
C) not cheerful or hopeful
B) tests at school
A) something important could happen
D) not under my control
Click if correct
Check
True or False?
The speaker would like a piece of cake saved from Gran’s party.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
celebrate your reading.
Reveal
Make a list of the books you've read and celebrate milestones.
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: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
50 Ways to Score a Goal: 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?
But this is the big one. I've waited all day.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How important is football to the speaker?
B) Which match is the speaker watching in the first verse?
C) What does “Mother Nature” mean in the poem?
D) Why does the speaker say “Just ten minutes more”?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside and spend time with Mother Nature. But what can I do? It's out of my hands: Nigeria are playing Croatia. Eating on your own isn't much fun. Some say there's nothing bleaker. But this is the big one. I've waited all day. Switzerland – Costa Rica. Sorry to miss Gran’s party today. Please save me a piece of cake. She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran: there's an awful lot at stake. Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow. I'll get revising as soon as I can. Just ten minutes more (plus time added on) of Colombia versus Japan.
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
Mother Nature
bleaker
it's out of my hands
awful lot at stake
exams
revising
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. 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
Mother Nature
Explore
Find Read Talk
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside and spend time with Mother Nature. But what can I do? It's out of my hands: Nigeria are playing Croatia.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Mother Nature
Your turn
it's out of my hands
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
bleaker
awful lot at stake
exams
revising
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside and spend time with Mother Nature. But what can I do? It's out of my hands: Nigeria are playing Croatia. Eating on your own isn't much fun. Some say there's nothing bleaker. But this is the big one. I've waited all day. Switzerland – Costa Rica. Sorry to miss Gran’s party today. Please save me a piece of cake. She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran: there's an awful lot at stake. Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow. I'll get revising as soon as I can. Just ten minutes more (plus time added on) of Colombia versus Japan.
Reveal Vocabulary
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today. Please save me a piece of cake. She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran: there's an awful lot at stake. Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow. I'll get revising as soon as I can. Just ten minutes more (plus time added on) of Colombia versus Japan.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today.
Please save me a piece of cake.
She'll understand, it's Morocco - Iran:
there's an awful lot at stake.
Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow.
I'll get revising as soon as I can.
Just ten minutes more (plus time added on)
of Colombia versus Japan.
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Sorry to miss Gran’s party today. Please save me a piece of cake. She'll understand, it's Morocco – Iran: there's an awful lot at stake. Yes, I know I have exams tomorrow. I'll get revising as soon as I can. Just ten minutes more (plus time added on) of Colombia versus Japan.
Explore
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Read Between the Lines
A) How important is football to the speaker?
Be a detective and look for clues!
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Fixtures
I'd love nothing more than to go outside and spend time with Mother Nature. But what can I do? It's out of my hands: Nigeria are playing Croatia.
A) How important is football to the speaker?
Reveal Explainer
The speaker seems very passionate about football because they choose watching a football match over going outside and spending time in nature. This suggests football is one of the most important things to them.
Teach
From: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021. 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 important is football to the speaker?
B) Which match is the speaker watching in the first verse?
C) What does “Mother Nature” mean in the poem?
D) Why does the speaker say “Just ten minutes more”?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - eating on your own isn’t much fun…but this is the big one - I’ve waited all day
football is more important than eating alone
A) How important is football to the speaker?
Text Mark Evidence sorry to miss Gran’s party today
football is more important than family events
Text Mark Evidence - I’ll get revising as soon as I can - just ten minutes more…of Colombia versus Japan
football is more important than schoolwork
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) Which match is the speaker watching in the first verse?
Text Mark Evidence Nigeria are playing Croatia
Nigeria versus Croatia
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
C) What does “Mother Nature” mean in the poem?
Text Mark Evidence go outside and spend time with Mother Nature
the outdoors / nature outside
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence just ten minutes more
wants to keep watching the football match
D) Why does the speaker say “Just ten minutes more”?
Text Mark Evidence of Colombia versus Japan
does not want to stop watching Colombia versus Japan
Text Mark Evidence I’ll get revising as soon as I can
is delaying revision for exams
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘bleaker’?
Tick Me
Tick two things the speaker misses or delays because of football.
Tick two:
A) going outside
B) buying a present
Check
C) Gran’s party
Click if correct
D) feeding the dog
Match Me
Matchthe word or phrase to its meaning:
4) out of my hands
3) at stake
1) exams
2) bleaker
C) not cheerful or hopeful
B) tests at school
A) something important could happen
D) not under my control
Click if correct
Check
True or False?
The speaker would like a piece of cake saved from Gran’s party.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
celebrate your reading.
Reveal
Make a list of the books you've read and celebrate milestones.
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: 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston © 2021 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.