Easy English: Book 2 - Easy Read and Write by Teacher Superstore

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Ready-Ed Publications aims to assist busy professionals by making available contemporary classroom materials that contain relevant and stimulating work to support the requirements of the curriculum. Easy Read and Write Book 2 in the Easy English Series © 2009 Ready-Ed Publications Printed in Australia Author: Margaret Warner Illustrator: Terry Allen

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ISBN: 978 1 86397 759 3

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Contents

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Outcome Links

At the Park 1 At the Park Activity 1 At the Park 2 At the Park Activity 2 At the Park 3 At the Park Activity 3

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The Big Carrot 1 The Big Carrot Activity The Big Carrot 2 The Big Carrot Activity The Big Carrot 3 The Big Carrot Activity The Big Carrot 4 The Big Carrot Activity

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Teachers’ Notes

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Rainbow Soup 1 Rainbow Soup Activity 1 Rainbow Soup 2 Rainbow Soup Activity 2 Rainbow Soup 3 Rainbow Soup Activity 3 Rainbow Soup 4 Rainbow Soup Activity 4

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The Bush Walk 1 The Bush Walk Activity The Bush Walk 2 The Bush Walk Activity The Bush Walk 3 The Bush Walk Activity The Bush Walk 4 The Bush Walk Activity

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Night-Time 1 Night-Time Activity Night-Time 2 Night-Time Activity Night-Time 3 Night-Time Activity Night-Time 4 Night-Time Activity

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I Feel Sick 1 I Feel Sick Activity 1 I Feel Sick 2 I Feel Sick Activity 2 I Feel Sick 3 I Feel Sick Activity 3 I Feel Sick 4 I Feel Sick Activity 4

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Teachers’ Notes The teacher must provide time for the student to process statements and instructions and always check for the student’s understanding.

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ESL/ESD learners need an explicit, methodical and planned language program that can be integrated into their class work in all key learning areas. It is important for the teacher to establish a supportive classroom environment where the student’s first language and culture are valued. This will nurture the student’s selfesteem and encourage him/her to gain confidence in the early stages of learning a new language. Use of cooperative learning strategies and peer tutoring will help the student build social friendships which are an integral part of developing language skills.

The teacher’s gestures and facial expressions plus visual clues (photos, pictures, objects, etc) will help the student make meaning. Regular and positive feedback from the teacher will consolidate the student’s sense of achievement and encourage the self confidence.

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Easy Read and Write is the second book in the Easy English Series for students learning English as a Second Language as well as Aboriginal students learning English as a Second Dialect, that is, students who are coming into the school system having little or no experience of English.

Easy Read and Write (Book 2) builds on the thematic vocabulary introduced in Easy Words (Book 1). It contains six short stories based on familiar topics and vocabulary introduced in Book 1.

Other books in the series focus on reading, writing, punctuation and grammar, text types and the skills of editing and proofreading.

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It is important for the teacher to be aware that using short, positive sentences is best for the learner.

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activities based on the story to provide easy reference for the student and to build the student’s confidence and skills.

Outcome Links New South Wales

South Australia

Values and Attitudes V2, V3, V4 ,V5

Reading, Writing, Speaking and Viewing.

Talking and Listening TES1.1, TS1.1 Reading

RES1.5

Writing

WES1.9, WES1.11

Tasmania

- Identifies and talks about some features of written language and visual images when reading and viewing a range of texts. (Standard One. 1.7)

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Reading and Viewing – Standard One, Stage 1&2

Writing and Representing – Standard One, Stage 1&2 Speaking and Listening –Standard One, Stage 1&2 ACT

ELA8: The student listens and speaks with purpose and effect. (8.EC.1,2,4,7,8) ELA9: The student reads effectively. (9.EC.1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14) ELA10: The student writes effectively. (10.EC.1,2,3,4,5,6,8,11,12)

Victoria

Reading (Level 1): Students match print and spoken text in their immediate environment. They recognise how sounds are represented alphabetically and identify some sound letter relationships. They use context and information about words, letters and the sounds associated with them to make meaning and use illustrations to extend meaning.

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- Identifies some aspects of spoken language in a range of contexts when listening to and responding to texts. (Standard One. 1.5)

Writing (Level 1): Students write to convey ideas or messages. They use conventional letters, groups of letters and simple punctuation such as full stops and capital letters. Students are aware of the sound system and relationships between letters and sounds in words when speaking. They form letters correctly.

Northern Territory

Speaking:

(SBL1.1,2,3&4) (SBL2.3&4) (SL1.1,2,3&4) (SL2.1,2,3&4)

Speaking & Listening (Level 1): Students use spoken language appropriately in the classroom. They ask and answer simple questions for information and clarification, contribute relevant ideas during class and follow simple instructions.

Reading:

(RBL1.1,2,3&4) (RBL2.1,2,3&4) (RBL3.3&4) (RL1.1&3) (RL1.1&3) (RL2.1,3&4) (RL3.1,3&4)

Western Australia

Writing:

(WBL1.1,2,3&4) (WBL2.1,2,3&4) (WBL3.1,3&4) (WL1.1&4)

Reading: Students read texts with purpose and understanding

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Writing: Students write for purpose, using conventions

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Language Learning and Communication.

Oral Language: Use spoken language for a range of purposes. Explore patterns and conventions of spoken or signed language. Interact with peers and familiar adults using, with support, conventions associated with formal and informal group settings.

Speaking: Students speak with purpose and effect Listening: Students listen with purpose and understanding

Early Literacy (Reading and Viewing): Use emerging understandings to predict and make meanings from a variety of written, visual and multimodal texts. Early Literacy (Writing and Shaping): Students experiment with emerging understandings of written, visual and multimodal texts to communicate meanings.

At the Park 1 Jack and Lilly are very happy. It’s Saturday. It’s a sunny

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day. The sky is blue and there

Today Auntie Rosie is coming to visit. She’s

coming at 10 o’clock. It’s nearly 10 o’clock now. Knock, knock!

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smile. She opened the door.

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At the Park Activity 1

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Auntie Rosie smiled at Jack and Lilly. “Are we going to the park?” Jack asked. “Can I ride my bike?” Lilly asked. “Yes, we’re going to the park. Jack and I will walk and Lilly can ride her bike.”

Auntie Rosie and Jack walked and talked. Lilly rode her red bike in front of them. On the way they saw six white ©cockatoos ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons in a tall gum tree.

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At the park Lilly played on the swings and Jack slipped down the slide. They all kicked the soccer ball. “Did you bring any snacks in your backpack?” Auntie Rosie asked.

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Lilly opened her backpack. “I’ve got three bottles of water and three muffins. One bottle of water and one muffin for each of us.” Jack opened his backpack. “I’ve got three apples and three cheese snacks. One apple and one cheese snack for each of us.”

Auntie Rosie smiled. She opened her bag. “I’ve got three treats, one for each of us,” she said.

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Auntie Rosie looked up when a magpie landed on © ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons the grass near them. “Do you think I have some •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• worms for you?” she asked the magpie. She looked in her bag and smiled. “No worms in here, magpie.”

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At the Park Activity 3 What did Auntie Rosie, Jack and Lilly have for a snack?

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What do you like to have for a snack?

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Draw all the snacks that they ate.

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I Feel Sick 1 Jack’s mum looked at the

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clock. It was nearly 8

where Jack was. She went to find him. He was still in bed.

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“Jack, what’s the matter?” his mum asked.

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feel sick.”

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Jack’s mum said, “What's

the matter, Jack?”

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I Feel Sick 2 “I feel sick, mum. I feel sick in the stomach.

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I feel like I’m going to be sick right now.”

Jack closed his eyes. “I can’t go to school today, mum,” Jack said.

“No, you can’t go to school, Jack. I’ll ring the

doctor now.”

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4. His mum said, “I’ll ring the ______________.” 15

I Feel Sick 3

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At 11 o’clock, Jack and his mum walked to the doctor’s office. It wasn’t very far.They sat in the doctor’s waiting room for half an hour. Jack read a book and his mum read the newspaper. Then the nurse said, “Jack, you’re next.” "Hi Jack. Come and sit on the bed so I can take a

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look at you,” Doctor Smith said. Jack liked Doctor Smith. She was kind and smiley. “What’s the matter today, Jack?” she asked. © ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons “I feel sick in the stomach and I •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• feel itchy,” Jack answered.

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Draw a line from Jack to the sentences that are true.

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Doctor Smith looked at Jack’s tongue. She put her hand on his face. Then she pulled Jack’s t-shirt up. She looked at Jack’s stomach. Then she looked at Jack’s back.

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“What did you eat yesterday, Jack?” she asked. Jack smiled. “I went to Andrew’s birthday party and ate lots of party food,” Jack answered.

“I think,” said Doctor Smith “that maybe you ate © ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons some party food that your body didn’t like. •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• No school for you today. Go home and go to bed and rest. I’ll give you some cream for the itchy spots.

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Tomorrow you will be okay to go to school.”

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Can you put these sentences in the order that they happened?

Doctor Smith looked at Jack’s stomach.

Doctor Smith looked at Jack’s back.

Doctor Smith put her hand on Jack’s face.

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Doctor Smith looked at Jack’s tongue.

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Rainbow Soup 1

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Lilly ran all the way home from school on Friday. She was very excited. She was going to her grandparents’ house for a sleepover. She was going to stay for the weekend.

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“Time to go, Lilly,” her mum called at 4 o’clock. Lilly picked up her bag and went outside to the car. “See you on Sunday,” she called to her dad.

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When she got home she packed her bag. She packed her jeans, her t-shirts, her jacket and her pyjamas and slippers. She packed © Re adher yEdPubl i cat i ons her hairbrush and •f orShe r ev i ew pur posesonl y• toothbrush. packed a book to read in bed.

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Trace these words. This is what Lilly packed in her bag.

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jeans t-shirt t jacket pyjamas r o e s Bo r e ok book slippers hairbrush toothbrush up Join the two little words below to make one word.

grand parents

sleep over

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hair brush

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Rainbow Soup 2 One hour later they were at Grandma and Grandad’s house. Grandma opened the front

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door. She was smiling. She was very happy.

Lilly looked in all the rooms. “Where’s Grandad?”

she asked. “He’s still at work,” Grandma said. “He’ll be home soon.”

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Draw Lilly and her Grandma making an apple pie.

How many people are in your family? ____

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Rainbow Soup 3 On Saturday morning Lilly and Grandma got up early. Grandma drove to the train station. Grandma parked the car and then Grandma and Lilly got on the train. Soon they were in the city.

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S First they went to the library to get some books. Then they went to a cafe to get a drink and a snack. After that, they went to the markets.

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On Sunday morning Grandma drove

They went to the library to get

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Join the boxes to show who received each item.

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On Sunday Grandma was tired so she had a rest. Grandad said, “I’ll cook the dinner today.” “What are you going to cook, Grandad?” Lilly asked. “I’m going to make soup,” he answered. “What kind of soup, Grandad?” Lilly asked. Grandad thought for a minute. “It has lots of vegetables in it: orange carrots, white potatoes, green celery, red and green capsicum and yellow pumpkin too.” Grandad smiled. “I call it rainbow soup. I think you’ll like it.”

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at Lilly. “Rainbow soup is very delicious.” Grandad and Lilly cooked rainbow soup.

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What’s in rainbow soup? Write yes or no in the boxes.

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cabbage

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The Big Carrot 1 When Lilly made rainbow soup with Grandad he told her a story …

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Once upon a time, a man and his wife lived on a small farm. They planted some carrot seeds. Every day the sun warmed the little seeds in the ground. The rain watered the little seeds in the ground. When it didn’t rain, the man filled a bucket with water and watered the seeds.

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r o e t s B r water watered fill filled e oo p u k S Use the words above to complete the story. Once upon a time a man and his wife (1) _________

some carrot seeds. Every day the sun (2) _________ the little seeds. The rain

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planted the seeds. Every day the sun warmed the

Soon the little shoots grew taller. Then they

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5. Little green leaves grew above the ground. 6. Little carrots grew under the ground.

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One day the man looked at the carrots. He said,

“I’m hungry. I’m going to pull the biggest carrot out

of the ground. Then I’m going to wash it and eat it.” He bent down and pulled the green feathery leaves

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Draw the story of the carrot.

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1.The carrots grew under the ground.

2.The man said, “I’m hungry.”

3.He pulled the feathery leaves of the biggest carrot.

4.The carrot stayed under the ground.

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The Big Carrot 4 The biggest carrot was still under the ground. The man said, “I’ll try again.” He couldn’t pull the carrot out. The woman said, “I’ll try to pull it out.” She pulled and pulled. She couldn’t pull the carrot out.

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S The man’s friend said, “I’ll pull the carrot out.”

He pulled and pulled. He couldn’t pull the carrot out. Lots of people came to look at the big carrot. They all said, “I’ll pull the carrot out.” No one pulled the big carrot out of the ground!

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3. The sun warmed the seeds.

4. Little pink shoots started to grow. 5. Carrots have yellow leaves.

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The Bush Walk 1 On the weekend Jack and Lilly’s mum and dad went to a wedding. Jack and Lilly went to stay

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at their friends’ house. Lilly wrote a letter

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The Bush Walk 2 On Sunday Maya’s mum and dad asked if we wanted to go on a bushwalk in a National Park. We said yes. Mrs Hills packed a picnic lunch for us.

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S Mr Hills said we had to wear shoes not sandals. We all wore jeans and t-shirts and shoes for walking. We took a hat too because it was hot.

It took about an hour and a half to get to the National Park. We saw lot ofl interesting ©R ead yEdaP ub i cat i ons things on the way. We saw a lot of farms that •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• have dairy cows. Dairy cows give us milk.

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The Bush Walk Activity 2

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You will have to read the whole of Lilly’s letter to complete this activity.

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The Bush Walk 3 We also saw a big black snake slither across the road in front of the car. He was very shiny. He slithered into the long grass.

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S When we got to Seacliff National Park we had a

snack and a drink. Then we started our bushwalk.

Koalas live in the tall gum trees but we didn’t see any for half an hour. We were all looking up to see if we could find one. Sam was walking in front ©the Re ady Ecalled dPu bl i cat i ons of us on path. He out that there was •f o rr ev e wgum pur pos es olooked. nl y• a koala high up ini the tree. We all

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It was just a bump on the tree branch. We walked a bit further and then Maya saw two koalas high up in a tree. The big one was sitting up looking at us and eating gum leaves. The little one was sleeping.

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The Bush Walk Activity 3

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Koalas Koalas live in gum trees. They eat gum leaves.

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The Bush Walk 4 The koalas looked beautiful with their soft grey fur and fluffy ears. We took a photo.

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r o e t s Bo r e ok Later on u wep saw a few more koalas. We alsoS saw an echidna walk across the

path. Maybe it was looking for some ants for its lunch. On the way back to the picnic area we saw white cockatoos and galahs.

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The Bush Walk Activity 4

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Trace these words then find the animals in the word search.

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Night-Time 1 Jack, Sam, Lilly and Maya were all tired after the bushwalk.

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Jack lay awake in the dark, listening. He heard the noise of a brown frog calling, “Gloop, gloop ... gloop, gloop”.

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“I’m so tired,” Sam said at 8 o’clock. “I’m going to bed.” Jack and Sam talked for a while and soon Sam was asleep.

©R ad yEd Pu bl i cat i ons “Tomorrow ite will rain,” Jack whispered. f or r ev i ew pur posesonl y• “The • frogs know that.”

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“Gloop, gloop,” another frog answered. Then he heard, “Croak, croak, croak”. He knew it was a different frog calling to a friend. “Was it a green frog?” he said to himself. In the dark he then heard, “Chirrup, chirrup, chirrup”.

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Trace these words.

sun

moon

stars

clouds

rain

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stars

sun clouds

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1. Frogs have two four six legs.

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o c . 3. Frogs can jump run skip . ch e r er o t s s r u e p 4. Frogs can read fly swim .

5. Frogs like to eat flies pizza noodles .

Night-Time 2 It was a little green cricket. Soon another one started to sing, “Chirrup, chirrup, chirrup”. “Be careful of those frogs, little crickets,”

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Jack said quietly. “Frogs eat crickets.”

heard another sound. He heard a loud thump on

the roof. “I know what that is,” Jack said quietly. He got out of bed and looked out the window. In

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Trace these words.

cricket frog possum chirrup gloop croak thump or e st

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Bo r e p ok u ReadS the story about Jack and add bed

tree

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They were in the big gum . te o c (6) ________. Mother . che e r o t r s super possum was eating gum (5) __________.

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Night-Time 3 Mother and baby stopped eating when they heard a noise far away. “Boo book … boo book”.

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Mother and baby looked around. They knew

Mother and baby brushtail were safe from the boobook owl. They sat very still and listened

until the call of the boobook owl went away.

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. te to rain. o tree, it started c . c e he r Drip, drop, splat, splat. o t r s s r u e p The possums raced flowers of the big gum

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Look at the picture of mother possum with her baby. Draw a line from the words to show different parts of the possum and its food.

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big eyes

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Night-Time 4 Jack jumped back into bed and listened to the rain. Ratta tatta tat. Ratta tatta tat. It sounded

r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S stopped and Jack heard another Soon the rain sound. Snarrgg, snuffle, snarrgg, snuffle, snuffle. What was making that noise?

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Jack got out of bed and crept into the lounge room.

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Night-Time Activity 4

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Auntie Rosie is visiting on Saturday. Jack is happy; It’s Saturday; It’s a sunny day; The sky is blue; Lilly can hear a knock

1)wedding 2)house 3)penguins 4) funny 6)cold The5)Antarctica Bush Walk Activity

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Trace these words then ﬁnd the Page 39 animals in the word search.

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koalas echidna cockatoos galahs

dingo echidna goanna kangaroo

1)smiled 2)talked 3)played 4)kicked

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1)grey 2)gum leaves 3)a gumpossum tree snake 4)onewallaby baby wombat

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Jack feels sick. Jack is itchy. Jack feels hot.

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1 4 2 3 5 6

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1)hand 2)face 3)eyes 4) doctor

koala lizard parrot playpus

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sleepover grandparents’ weekend

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apples(no) carrots(yes) cabbage(no) celery(yes)

A) stars clouds plane moon

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B) 1)four 2)big 3)jump 4)swim 5)flies

1)planted 2)warmed 3) watered 4)filled

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1)roof 2)bed 3)window 4)possum 5)back 6)tree 7)leaves 8)night-time

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1)true 2)false 3)true 4)false 5)false 6)true 7)true 8)true 9)true 10)true

1)frog 2)cricket 3)owl 4)possum 5) frog 6)rain 7)Mr Hills snoring

11)false 12)false