What or who am I?

This task is about making inferences to predict what a poem could be about.
You will read a poem in three parts, one part at a time.
After reading each part:
  • in the left hand boxes, predict all the things you think the poem is describing.
  • in the right hand boxes, explain how the evidence in the text, and what you know, supports your predictions

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My other _______________
 
Have you seen my other _______________?
I had it just before.
It shouldn't be too hard to find
it's somewhere on the shore.
It disappeared all by itself
when I was in the waves,
and that's the way my other _______________
usually behaves.
Part 1  
 
I think this poem could be describing any one of these things:  because:
 

Question 1Change answer


My other _______________

Have you seen my other _______________?
I had it just before.
It shouldn't be too hard to find
it's somewhere on the shore.
It disappeared all by itself
when I was in the waves,
and that's the way my other _______________
usually behaves.
 
Have you seen my other _______________?
It's green with white on top.
It's still quite newish looking,
'cause it's just come from the shop.
I need my other _______________
the sand's too hot to touch.
If you found my _______________ for me
I'd thank you awfully much.
 
Have you seen my other _______________?
Mum says, 'Not again!
I'm sick of buying _______________
Have a good look, use your brain!
Did you leave it in the dairy
when we went to get a drink?
Or is it down beside the rockpool?
Look, it must be somewhere. Think!'

 
 
Part 2  
 
Now I think this poem could be describing any one of these things:  because:
 

Question 1Change answer


My other _______________

Have you seen my other _______________?
I had it just before.
It shouldn't be too hard to find
it's somewhere on the shore.
It disappeared all by itself
when I was in the waves,
and that's the way my other _______________
usually behaves.

Have you seen my other _______________?
It's green with white on top.
It's still quite newish looking,
'cause it's just come from the shop.
I need my other _______________
the sand's too hot to touch.
If you found my _______________ for me
I'd thank you awfully much.
 
Have you seen my other _______________?
Mum says, 'Not again!
I'm sick of buying _______________
Have a good look, use your brain!
Did you leave it in the dairy
when we went to get a drink?
Or is it down beside the rockpool?
Look, it must be somewhere. Think!'

 
Have you seen my other _______________?
It isn't in the car.
Without a foot to walk in it,
it can't have gone too far.
I wish that I could stop this
it's been going on for years.
When summer starts,
my other _______________
always disappears.
 
 
Part 3
 
Now I think this poem is most likely to be about: 
 because:
 

Question 1Change answer

Pause, look, and think back:
Something I'm still wondering about is: 

Question 1Change answer

To do this activity, you used the reading strategy of making inferences.



Select any other reading strategy you used and describe when and how you used this reading strategy for this poem:

 
Making connections between what I know 
 yesno
Asking questions yesno
Creating a picture in my head, or visualising yesno
Identifying the writer's purpose yesno
Identifying the main idea yesno
Summarising yesno
Analysing and synthesising ideas and information yesno
Evaluating ideas and information yesno