20888 ACE Language (Yr 4) Pronoun Reference and Text Connectives

Same thing – different names
1. (a) Read the paragraph and highlight all the words and phrases you could
replace with the words, ‘an elephant’, ‘the elephant’ or ‘elephants’.
Elephants are mammals. These enormous creatures are the Earth’s largest land
mammals. The only mammals that are bigger than them are whales. They are
usually gentle and they can be trained to work hard. But it is not a good idea to
hurt one or to make it angry. When one of these gentle giants is angry, it can be
very dangerous. People who have hurt one of them have been attacked a long
time later. They say this is because they never forget.
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)
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(b) Write ‘an elephant’ or ‘elephants’ above all your highlighted words and
read the new text to a partner.
(c) Give your opinion about the new text by circling one of the word choices.
I think the new text is:
(i) easier harder to understand. (ii) more less interesting.
(iii) shorter longer . (iv) more less informative.
2. (a) Read the paragraph and highlight all the words and phrases you could
replace with the word ‘Caleb’.
Caleb was always in trouble. It didn’t matter how hard he tried, things always
seemed to go wrong for the poor boy. One day his dad planted a new veggie
garden. As he was going to have a shower, he asked his son to give the plants a
bit of water. His willing helper picked up the hose. He had great fun pretending
it was a firehose. The happy fireman worked really hard putting out an enormous
fire. Then he heard Dad coming back. The busy waterer looked at Dad’s garden.
What had he done? Then … the terrified boy realised he had washed away every
one of Dad’s new veggie plants.
(b) Write ‘Caleb’ above all your highlighted
words and read the new text to a partner.
(c)
Explain how the new text is different from the old one.
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