Ready Steady Read Together
100 Forest School Activities: Non-fiction 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?
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
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From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow many different types of insects are there in the UK?
A) What is a pooter pot used for?
B) What item is used to make the holes in the lid?
C) Why do the instructions state to use a green sticker and a red sticker?
D) What are two ways the author encourages readers to treat insects kindly and responsibly after examining them?
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Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
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Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
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pooter
device
staggering
airtight
position
inspection
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From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 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
pooter
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Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
pooter
Your turn
staggering
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
device
airtight
position
inspection
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite. And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find! Some are tricky to tell apart but the more we can get up close to these amazing little beasts, the more we can learn about them.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite.
And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK,
there are lots to find!
Some are tricky to tell apart
but the more we can get up close to these amazing little beasts,
the more we can learn about them.
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite. And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find! Some are tricky to tell apart but the more we can get up close to these amazing little beasts, the more we can learn about them.
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 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...
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow many different types of insects are there in the UK?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite. And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find!
Reveal Explainer
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow many different types of insects are there in the UK?
I will ‘look around’ for the key words ‘different types of insect’. I can also ‘look around’ for a number because the question asks how many. In the introduction, I find the text: a staggering 27,000 of different types of insect in the UK. I can ‘find and take’ the answer: there are 27,000 different types of insect in the UK.
Teach
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 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) What is a pooter pot used for?
B) What item is used to make the holes in the lid?
C) Why do the instructions state to use a green sticker and a red sticker?
D) What are two ways the author encourages readers to treat insects kindly and responsibly after examining them?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) What is a pooter pot used for?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence a pooter pot is a device that allows us to collect and observe without doing any harm to the insect (or yourself)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) What item is used to make the holes in the lid?
Click to reveal...
the metal skewer
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
red tube
warns the reader not to suck through that tube as this is the tube that pulls the insect into the jar
C) Why do the instructions state to use a green sticker and a red sticker?
green tube
is safe to suck through because the end inside the jar is covered with netting, preventing the insect from being inhaled
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) What are two ways the author encourages readers to treat insects kindly and responsibly after examining them?
Text Mark Evidence but make sure you put them back where you find them
to return the insects to where they were found
Text Mark Evidence don’t add another bug before you release the first one
to only collect one insect at a time
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘airtight’?
Which One's Right?
And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find!
Which answer best completes the sentence?
The word ‘staggering’ suggests that the number of different types of insect in the UK is…
B) difficult to count.
A) surprisingly large.
C) decreasing each year.
D) unsteady and changeable.
Fill the Gaps
pooter
inspection
position
airtight
Step 3
Put some plasticine around the tube holes at the top of the lid to make them and screw the lid on top of the jar. Now you’re ready to !
Step 4
Find a bug, the red tube over the bug and suck through the green tube. The bug should land softly in the pot for closer . Don’t add another bug before you release the first one – who knows if they are friends or not?
Click if correct
Discuss then check
Sequence Me
Put the steps to make a pooter pot in the correct order:
A) Put netting and a green sticker on the short tube and a red sticker on the long tube.
B) Position the red tube over a bug and suck through the green tube.
C) Make two holes in the lid of the jar and insert the tubes.
D) Put plasticine around the tube holes to make them airtight and screw on the lid.
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...
discover new authors.
Reveal
Try books from writers you've never heard of to expand your horizons.
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Ready Steady Read Together
100 Forest School Activities: 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?
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow many different types of insects are there in the UK?
A) What is a pooter pot used for?
B) What item is used to make the holes in the lid?
C) Why do the instructions state to use a green sticker and a red sticker?
D) What are two ways the author encourages readers to treat insects kindly and responsibly after examining them?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Follow as I read
Explore
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
pooter
device
staggering
airtight
position
inspection
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 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
pooter
Explore
Find Read Talk
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
pooter
Your turn
staggering
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
device
airtight
position
inspection
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Reveal Vocabulary
Adapted from: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024.Adapted for accessibility under CLA Licence. Do not share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite. And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find! Some are tricky to tell apart but the more we can get up close to these amazing little beasts, the more we can learn about them.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite.
And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK,
there are lots to find!
Some are tricky to tell apart
but the more we can get up close to these amazing little beasts,
the more we can learn about them.
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite. And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find! Some are tricky to tell apart but the more we can get up close to these amazing little beasts, the more we can learn about them.
Explore
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 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...
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow many different types of insects are there in the UK?
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
Hunting for minibeasts is an activity that will never fail to excite. And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find!
Reveal Explainer
Teacher Model Question OnlyHow many different types of insects are there in the UK?
I will ‘look around’ for the key words ‘different types of insect’. I can also ‘look around’ for a number because the question asks how many. In the introduction, I find the text: a staggering 27,000 of different types of insect in the UK. I can ‘find and take’ the answer: there are 27,000 different types of insect in the UK.
Teach
From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 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) What is a pooter pot used for?
B) What item is used to make the holes in the lid?
C) Why do the instructions state to use a green sticker and a red sticker?
D) What are two ways the author encourages readers to treat insects kindly and responsibly after examining them?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) What is a pooter pot used for?
Click to reveal...
Text Mark Evidence a pooter pot is a device that allows us to collect and observe without doing any harm to the insect (or yourself)
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
B) What item is used to make the holes in the lid?
Click to reveal...
the metal skewer
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
red tube
warns the reader not to suck through that tube as this is the tube that pulls the insect into the jar
C) Why do the instructions state to use a green sticker and a red sticker?
green tube
is safe to suck through because the end inside the jar is covered with netting, preventing the insect from being inhaled
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
D) What are two ways the author encourages readers to treat insects kindly and responsibly after examining them?
Text Mark Evidence but make sure you put them back where you find them
to return the insects to where they were found
Text Mark Evidence don’t add another bug before you release the first one
to only collect one insect at a time
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘airtight’?
Which One's Right?
And with a staggering 27,000 different types of insect in the UK, there are lots to find! Which answer best completes the sentence? The word ‘staggering’ suggests that the number of different types of insect in the UK is…
B) difficult to count.
A) surprisingly large.
C) decreasing each year.
D) unsteady and changeable.
Fill the Gaps
pooter
inspection
position
airtight
Step 3 Put some plasticine around the tube holes at the top of the lid to make them and screw the lid on top of the jar. Now you’re ready to ! Step 4 Find a bug, the red tube over the bug and suck through the green tube. The bug should land softly in the pot for closer . Don’t add another bug before you release the first one – who knows if they are friends or not?
Click if correct
Discuss then check
Sequence Me
Put the steps to make a pooter pot in the correct order:
A) Put netting and a green sticker on the short tube and a red sticker on the long tube.
B) Position the red tube over a bug and suck through the green tube.
C) Make two holes in the lid of the jar and insert the tubes.
D) Put plasticine around the tube holes to make them airtight and screw on the lid.
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...
discover new authors.
Reveal
Try books from writers you've never heard of to expand your horizons.
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: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
airtight
pooter
position
inspection