What is this tiny thing?

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.

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A tiny
island 
appears 
on your 
finger
Part 1
I think this poem could be describing any one of these things:  because:

Question 1Change answer

A tiny 
island 
appears 
on your 
finger

prudently 
she 
moves 
her neat 
pebble

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

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A tiny
island
appears
on your
finger
 
prudently
she
moves
her neat
pebble
 
see on
her back
coins she
carries to
heaven.
Part 3
Now I think this poem could be describing any one of these things:  because:
 

Question 1Change answer

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

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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     
Asking questions
Creating a picture in my head, or visualising
Identifying the writer's purpose
Identifying the main idea
Summarising
Analysing and synthesising ideas and information
Evaluating ideas and information
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