Ready Steady Read Together
100 Forest School Activities: 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?
Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide.
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)
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
B) What type of area best suits the Treasure Map activity?
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.
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!
variety of features
plot
optimal
timeframe
concealing
scavenger hunt
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
variety of features
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.
variety of features
Your turn
optimal
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
plot
timeframe
concealing
scavenger hunt
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.
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...
Step 4
Using the features on your map, use sticks to create an X in each spot where the treasure is hidden. With younger groups, the map builder may have to talk through their map to their partner. Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide. Then swap over.
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
Step 4
Using the features on your map,
use sticks to create an X in each spot where the treasure is hidden.
With younger groups,
the map builder may have to talk through their map to their partner.
Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide.
Then swap over.
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
Step 4
Using the features on your map, use sticks to create an X in each spot where the treasure is hidden. With younger groups, the map builder may have to talk through their map to their partner. Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide. Then swap over.
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...
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
YOU WILL NEED
- A notebook with a list of things to find
Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide. Then swap over.
Reveal Statements
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the key word ‘found’. Although I cannot locate the exact word ‘found’, I can look for words with a similar meaning. ‘Found’ is the past tense of ‘find’. The word ‘find’ appears in both activities. In the first activity, the goal is to find the hidden treasure using the treasure map, so I can place a tick in the column for Treasure Map. In the scavenger hunt, the goal is to find the items on a list by searching outdoors for them, so I can place a tick in the column for Scavenger Hunt. The statement applies to both texts, so both columns should have a tick.
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) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
B) What type of area best suits the Treasure Map activity?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - even better in a wide space - a section of it if you are in a particularly large area
a big or wide area or section
B) What type of area best suits the Treasure Map activity?
Text Mark Evidence a…space with a variety of features in it such as trees, benches, bushes and fences
a place with different features
Text Mark Evidence you will need soft ground to make it 3D
a place with soft ground
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘concealing’?
Which One's Right?
Use small stones and colour them in with acrylic paint pens for less mess, or poster paints for optimal messiness!
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘optimal’?
B) reduced
A) controlled
D) untidy
C) ideal
True or False?
The Treasure Hunt activity could be completed in pairs or small groups.
False
True
Tick Me
Use small stones and colour them in with acrylic paint pens for less mess, or poster paints for optimal messiness!
What does this suggest about the authors?
Tick one:
A) The authors think mess should only be outdoors.
B) The authors enjoy fun, hands-on activities.
Check
C) The authors think children should avoid being creative.
Click if correct
D) The authors want the activity to be completed quickly.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create your own fact book.
Reveal
Write down what you've learned and add pictures or diagrams.
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Ready Steady Read Together
100 Forest School Activities: 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?
Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide.
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)
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
B) What type of area best suits the Treasure Map activity?
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.
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!
variety of features
plot
optimal
timeframe
concealing
scavenger hunt
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
variety of features
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.
variety of features
Your turn
optimal
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
plot
timeframe
concealing
scavenger hunt
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.
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...
Step 4 Using the features on your map, use sticks to create an X in each spot where the treasure is hidden. With younger groups, the map builder may have to talk through their map to their partner. Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide. Then swap over.
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
Step 4
Using the features on your map,
use sticks to create an X in each spot where the treasure is hidden.
With younger groups,
the map builder may have to talk through their map to their partner.
Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide.
Then swap over.
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
Step 4 Using the features on your map, use sticks to create an X in each spot where the treasure is hidden. With younger groups, the map builder may have to talk through their map to their partner. Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide. Then swap over.
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...
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
What's the question asking? Now, what are you looking for?
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
YOU WILL NEED
Now go and find the treasure using the map as a guide. Then swap over.
Reveal Statements
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
Reveal Explainer
I will ‘look around’ for the key word ‘found’. Although I cannot locate the exact word ‘found’, I can look for words with a similar meaning. ‘Found’ is the past tense of ‘find’. The word ‘find’ appears in both activities. In the first activity, the goal is to find the hidden treasure using the treasure map, so I can place a tick in the column for Treasure Map. In the scavenger hunt, the goal is to find the items on a list by searching outdoors for them, so I can place a tick in the column for Scavenger Hunt. The statement applies to both texts, so both columns should have a tick.
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) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
B) What type of area best suits the Treasure Map activity?
Pairedreading first
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
A) Using information from the text, place a tick (✓) in each row to show to which activity it applies. Put two ticks in the row if it applies to both activities.
Click each statement to reveal the correct answer
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - even better in a wide space - a section of it if you are in a particularly large area
a big or wide area or section
B) What type of area best suits the Treasure Map activity?
Text Mark Evidence a…space with a variety of features in it such as trees, benches, bushes and fences
a place with different features
Text Mark Evidence you will need soft ground to make it 3D
a place with soft ground
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘concealing’?
Which One's Right?
Use small stones and colour them in with acrylic paint pens for less mess, or poster paints for optimal messiness! Which word is closest in meaning to ‘optimal’?
B) reduced
A) controlled
D) untidy
C) ideal
True or False?
The Treasure Hunt activity could be completed in pairs or small groups.
False
True
Tick Me
Use small stones and colour them in with acrylic paint pens for less mess, or poster paints for optimal messiness! What does this suggest about the authors?
Tick one:
A) The authors think mess should only be outdoors.
B) The authors enjoy fun, hands-on activities.
Check
C) The authors think children should avoid being creative.
Click if correct
D) The authors want the activity to be completed quickly.
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
create your own fact book.
Reveal
Write down what you've learned and add pictures or diagrams.
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.