Let's make a bird ball II 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Further Resources This task is about reading some instructions and answering questions. Read "Let’s make a ball", School Journal Part 2, No 2, 1984, then answer the following questions. Question a) To make the pudding, what is the first thing that has to be done? Mix the dry ingredients. Melt the fat in a saucepan. Cook the bacon rinds and meat scraps. Crumble the stale bread and broken biscuits. Put a teaspoonful of honey into the saucepan. Question b) The honey is put into the saucepan before anything else is put in. with the meat scraps and bacon rinds. when the raisins are put in. with the stale bread and broken biscuits. at the very end just before the mixture is tipped out. Question c) What are you told you must not do? Heat the fat too quickly. Put too many dry ingredients in at once. Stir the mixture too briskly. Tip the mixture out too rapidly. Question d) What is the plastic bag used for? To stop the fat splattering the stove. To put over the finished pudding while it cools. To carry the animal fat in. To mix the dry ingredients in. To keep cats away from the pudding. Question 1Change answer e) What shows that the mixture is ready to be left to set? e) What shows that the mixture is ready to be left to set? Question 1Change answer f) For how long should the pudding be left to set? f) For how long should the pudding be left to set? Question 1Change answer g) What reason does the writer give for putting the pudding in a high place for the birds? g) What reason does the writer give for putting the pudding in a high place for the birds? Question 1Change answer h) The writer uses several different words to guide the reader through the various steps in the instructions, e.g., "First". h) The writer uses several different words to guide the reader through the various steps in the instructions, e.g., "First". Write four more of these 'guiding' words from the recipe. First Task administration: This task can be completed with pen and paper or online (without auto-marking). Copyright: Let's make a bird ball - Text was first published by Learning Media Limited in School Journal, on behalf of the Ministry of Education ©Linda McIntyre 1984. Reproduced with permission. Illustrations © Crown Copyright. Source: School Journal Part 2, No 2, Learning Media, 1984. Level: 3 Curriculum info: English, Making meaning, Reading Key Competencies: Using language, symbols, and texts Keywords: instructions, comprehension, School Journal, locate information, inference, SJ-2-2-1984 Description of task: Students read a text containing instructions then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-2-1984. Text provided. Curriculum Links: Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading: This resource helps to identify students’ ability to: use comprehension strategies locate and summarise ideas as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions. Learning Progression FrameworksThis resource can provide evidence of learning associated with Acquiring and using information and ideas in informational texts, sets 3-4 within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks. Answers/responses: Y6 (08/1999) a) Melt the fat in a saucepan. very easy b) with the meat scraps and bacon rinds. easy c) Heat the fat too quickly. easy d) To mix the dry ingredients in. easy e) (Oozing) fat appears around the edge of the saucer. moderate f) Any 1 of: A day or two. One day. Two days. very easy g) Any 1 of: So cats can not get it/the pudding. So cats can't get the birds. very easy h) Any 4 of: next while when continue now leave then 2 correct – difficult 1 correct – moderate Let's make a bird ball Read the recipe Yucky soup Grow your own crystals
