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Ready Steady Read Together

100 Forest School Activities: Non-fiction Lesson 4

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?

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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)

A)

B)

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

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Hover for definitions!

rustic

foraged materials

foliage

imprint

varnish

identification tool

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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

rustic

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.

rustic

Your turn

foliage

Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner

foraged materials

imprint

varnish

identification tool

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...

What did you notice?

Volume

Pace

Smoothness

Phrasing

Expression

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From: 100 Forest School Activities by Naomi & Dan Walmsley © 2024. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.

My Turn
Your Turn

Echo Read

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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

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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: Read Between the Lines

A)

Be a detective and look for clues!

Teach

Let me show you

Reveal Text Marks

A)

Reveal Explainer

Thi

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)

B)

Pairedreading first
Text mark
Find the answers

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Acceptable Answers

Text Mark Evidence

A)

Text Mark Evidence

Text Mark Evidence

A)

Text Mark Evidence

Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers

Practise & Apply

Acceptable Answers

Text Mark Evidence

A)

Text Mark Evidence

Text Mark Evidence

Text Mark Evidence

Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers

Practise & Apply

Acceptable Answers

Click each statement to reveal the correct answer

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.

Practise & Apply

Quiz Time

Start

Picture Me

Which image is the best match for ‘resist’?

True or False?

The princess lied to the queen about how she slept because she wanted to trick her.

True
False

Find Me

Find the word which meansconfused and mixed up.

Stella doesn’t say anything for a long time. “Never mind,” she finally says. “I don’t know what I was thinking. The pain is making me addled.”

Discuss then check

addled

Match Me

xxx

xx

xx

xxx

xx

A xx

B xx

C xx

D xx

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...

look for answers.

Reveal

Use non-fiction books to solve puzzles or satisfy your curiosity.

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.