20876 ACE Language (Yr 1) Simple Texts

Why the whale spouts and the
starfish looks ragged
(cause and effect with words like ‘because’, ‘since’, ‘so’)
Resource sheet
Once, long ago, when the world was new, all the Australian animals
were men.
The men lived in a land a long way from Australia. They decided to
travel there because the hunting was good and the weather was
sunny. It would be a hard journey so they needed a good canoe.
Whale, the biggest man, had a big, strong canoe. The other men
planned to steal the canoe because Whale would not share.
Starfish crept close to Whale and said,
‘You have lots of insects in your hair.
Let me get them out for you’.
Whale was very pleased, so he moored
his canoe in deep water and sat on a
rock. Starfish told funny stories and
scratched hard on Whale’s head so
he could not hear the others as they
stole the canoe and rowed away. Soon
Whale had a large wound on his head.
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Whale grew bored with stories and looked for his canoe. When
he saw it far away, he knew Starfish had tricked him. He was very
angry, so he threw Starfish against the rocks until he was covered
with jagged cuts. Starfish rolled away and hid in the sand.
Whale chased his canoe. As he swam through the water, large
waves crashed over him and squirted from the wound on his head.
The men reached Australia with Whale not far behind. Whale was
very angry because his canoe was wrecked on the shore. He spouted
water high into the air through the hole in his head.
To this day, all starfish look like they have ragged cuts on their
bodies and whales spout water through their heads.
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