My other jandal

My other jandal

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This task is about making inferences.
Read "My Other Jandal", from pages 14-15 in School Journal, Part 2, Number 4, 1994, and answer the questions below.
 
a) 
What problem does the boy in this poem have?
 
 
 
 
 
b) 
Write down a part of the poem that shows the boy has had this problem before.
 
 
 
 
 
c)
Why does Mum feel cross about the missing jandal?
 
 
 
 
 
d) Write down two things that are the same about every verse.
 
  1.  
     
  2.  
     
e) 
Describe a time when you felt like the boy in this poem.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright: 
 My Other Jandal - Text was first published by Learning Media Limited in School Journal, on behalf of the Ministry of Education © Don Franks 1994. Illustrations by Wol Jobson. Copyright © Crown, 1994.
 
Source: "My Other Jandal", from pages 14-15 in School Journal, Part 2, Number 4, 1994.
 
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking
Keywords: 
poem, comprehension, School Journal, locate information, text features, SJ-2-4-1994
Description of task: 
Students read a poem, 'My Other Jandal', then answer inferential questions. The poem is provided with this resource. SJ-2-4-1994. Text not provided.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • use comprehension strategies
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progression.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Making sense of text: processing system, set 3
Reading for literary experience, set 3
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y4 (11/2000)

a)

He has lost his jandal. [Do not accept jandals.]

very easy

b)

Any 1 of:

  • "Mum says, 'Not again!"
  • "I'm sick of buying jandals"
  • "When summer starts, my other jandal always disappears."
  • The phrase "Have you seen my other jandal?" is repeated throughout the poem.
  • "that's the way my other jandal usually behaves."

easy

c)

Any 1 of:

  • It has happened many times before.
  • She will have to buy him a new pair.

easy

d)

For any 2 of:

  • They rhyme/have the same rhyme pattern.
  • They all begin with the words "Have you seen my other jandal?"
  • They all begin with a question.
  • He loses his jandal in each verse.
  • They are the same/similar/8 lines (except for the last verse) in length.

2 correct – very difficult

1 correct – easy

e)

Any reference to a time in which the student

  • loses something, or
  • gets in trouble with a parent for something that has happened before.

moderate