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Costume parade
Amazonian stream crossing
Cloze
story, parade, their, group, and, was, as, spotted, clothes,
glowing, had, ghost, with, could, carrying, students, There,
timidly, shaggy-maned, conical
Synthesising
1. Answers will vary.
2. 1st: Katie—Alice in Wonderland; 2nd: Morris—pirate/
villain; 3rd: Sophie—fairy; 4th: Kyle—ghost; 5th: Mary—
Little Red Riding Hood
3. Answers will vary but may include: to help you
remember them, to link them to the illustration etc.
4. a long-eared rabbit, a hunter with a bow and two
arrows and a shaggy-maned lion
5.—7. Answers will vary.
The forest
Cloze
of, some, flows, water, ferns, and, shallow, of, pitch, glowing,
hiding, cranny, cranny, its, timidly, trees, perches, hole, owl,
stands, itself, spotted, dotting
Predicting
1.–2. Answers will vary.
3. Possible topic words underlined: bird, leaf, flowers,
branch, hole, snake, tree, soil, cave
Own topic words will vary.
4. Possible answers: a description, an informative text, a
discussion
5. (a), (b) and (c) should be ticked.
6. Answers should indicate the owls would hunt the mice
to try to eat them.
7.–8. Answers will vary.
Treasure Island
Cloze
island, drew, corner, south, west, circular, featured, in,
enormous, chomped, middle, she, landscape, vertically,
topped, clumps, between, grew, to, down, river, coarse, plain
Visualising
1.–2. Answers will vary.
3. Possible answers:
(a) the chart paper—white, brown, beige
(b) the eastern high, vertical cliffs—brown, grey
(c) the bay—blue
(d) the clumps of reeds—green or brown
(e) the river—blue
4. (a) circular (b) high, vertical (c) big (d) enormous
(e) three-masted (f) high; vertical like a low table
(g) low (h) coarse (i) covered by rocky hillocks
5. Answers will vary.
Cloze
of, challenged, rope, inflated, his, expeditioners, and, They,
along, cautiously, swaying, attaching, dinghy, far, stepped,
quietly, spied, water, he, warning, behind, same, downstream
Making connections
Text to self
1.–4. Answers will vary.
Text to text
5.–7. Answers will vary.
Text to world
8. Answers will vary but may include: Many interesting and
dangerous animals can be found in the Amazon region;
Jaguars, anacondas and tapirs are found in the Amazon
region; The Amazon region is hard to navigate and
explore; The Amazon region is a dangerous place.
9. Answers will vary but may include: People could get
hurt exploring the Amazon; Explorers could see jaguars,
anacondas and tapirs in the Amazon region; People
would take camping supplies into regions like the
Amazon.
Undersea domes
Cloze
and, built, scientists, marine, seafloor, below, has, brown, it,
domes, of, glass, standing, activity, lazily, group, harmlessly,
of, crawling, connected, chemist, through, submarine,
curious, her, corridor
Questioning
Before reading
1.–3. Answers will vary.
During reading
4. Marine scientists research and study the sea; its animals
and organisms; the landscapes, areas and atmosphere.
5. A dome is a large, hemispherical or rounded vault
usually forming the roof of a building or structure that
typically has a circular base.
6. Pylons are towers that provide support in a structure.
7. A biologist is a scientist who studies life or living matter.
8. A viewport is a window in a spacecraft, tower of an oil
rig or similar for looking through.
9. A nautilus is a mollusc with a spiral-shaped shell and
tentacles around its mouth.
10. Answers will vary.
After reading
11.–12. Answers will vary.
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