Brushes and hedgehogs 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Further Resources This task is about using information in a comic strip to make inferences. Your teacher will provide a copy of the comic strip Hedgehogs. Question 1Change answer a) What probably happened to the father hedgehog? a) What probably happened to the father hedgehog? Question 1Change answer b) In Picture 6 there are some hair brushes on the road. How did they get there? b) In Picture 6 there are some hair brushes on the road. How did they get there? Question 1Change answer c) Why have the hedgehogs gone on to the road in Picture 6? c) Why have the hedgehogs gone on to the road in Picture 6? Question 1Change answer d) What are two things about the way the hairbrushes look that make the hedgehogs think they are squashed hedgehogs? d) What are two things about the way the hairbrushes look that make the hedgehogs think they are squashed hedgehogs? 1. 2. Question e) Which of these titles goes best with this comic strip? Hedgehogs The Hairbrush Truck Road Safety Hairbrush Hedgehogs Task administration: This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with some auto-marking). You will need to make a copy of the comic strip Hedgehogs, pages 24-25 of School Journal, Part 2, No 1, 1991. Label each frame from 1 to 7. Level: 2 Curriculum info: English, Making meaning, Viewing Keywords: cartoon, comprehension, title, inference, SJ-2-1-1991 Description of task: Students read a comic strip and answer questions about comprehension and inference. SJ-2-1-1991. Answers/responses: Y4 (10/1999) a) He got run over/squashed. very easy b) They fell off the truck. easy c) Any 1 of: To see the hair brushes/hedgehogs/what's on the road. They think the hair brushes are hedgehogs. easy d) Any 2 of: They have bristles/spikes. The handles of the brushes look like squashed hedgehog bodies. They are the shape of squashed hedgehogs. 2 correct – difficult 1 correct – very easy e) D (Hairbrush Hedgehogs) difficult The magic wand Mouse party Reading pictures Making chapattis Delicious Steamed Kai Spider Hide-and-go-seek House Bus The Lion and the Monkeys Why possums live in trees Mako shark Moods The windy night Sofi's first night away Down Comes A Tree A Load of Junk What or who am I? Rock Doc Giant weta What is it? Cuthbert's Babies The impossible bridge A gift for Aunty Ngā White Sunday in Samoa Tom's Tryathlon What are "they"? Daisy Data Railway Crossings Too Much Noise! Whale watch Shoes for the King The Missing Socks Treasure Island III The Lion and the Mouse