What is Susan making? | Assessment Resource Banks

This task is about predicting what a poem could be describing by making inferences.

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.

Question 1Change answer

The _____________________

Susan makes me a _____________________,
a fire to wind around
my neck ...

Part 1

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

Question 1Change answer

The _____________________

Susan makes me a _____________________,
a fire to wind around
my neck,
a streak of sunset,
a tangerine tiger's tail,
a giant jaffa roll,
a finger of lava ...

Part 2

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

Question 1Change answer

The _____________________

Susan makes me a _____________________,
a fire to wind around
my neck,
a streak of sunset,
a tangerine tiger's tail,
a giant jaffa roll,
a finger of lava,
a neon sign
that tells the cold
to keep away.

Part 3

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

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