Special Holiday Attraction!

Special Holiday Attraction!

Pencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
Using this Resource
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This task is about making inferences from both written and visual parts of a poem.

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a)  i)  Look at the image and find the phrase from the poem that best matches it.
special holiday image 1.gif
Write the phrase here: 

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     ii)  Look at the image and find the phrase from the poem that best matches it.
special holiday image 2.gif
Write the phrase here: 

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     iii) Look at the image and find the phrase from the poem that best matches it.
special holiday image 3.gif
Write the phrase here: 

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b)  i)  What does this word mean in the context of the poem?  
disappears

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   ii) What does this word mean in the context of the poem?
levitate

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   iii) What does this word mean in the context of the poem?
elevatoring

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c)  Highlight six words or phrases in the poem that are connected with magic.
     Do not use "levitate" or "disappears" from question b), or "magic".
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pen and paper or online (without auto-marking).
Copyright: 
Source: School Journal Part 4, No 2, 1994, Learning Media.
Reproduced with permission.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking, Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
poem, comprehension, text features, School Journal, SJ-4-2-1994
Description of task: 
Students read a poem then make inferences using the written and the visual texts. SJ-4-2-1994. Text provided.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • infer ideas and information that are not directly stated in the text
  • interpret illustrations
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Making sense of text: vocabulary knowledge, set 6
Reading for literary experience, set 5
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 
Y8 (07/1999)
a) i)
ii)
iii)		 Juggling skittles of plastic.
Fluttering white-tailed dove.
Metal rings levitate.		 very easy
easy
easy
b) i)
ii)
iii)		 Vanishes/quickly goes from sight.
Hanging/floating/rising in mid-air.
Going up in a lift.		 moderate
difficult
difficult
c)   Any 6 of:

  • wizardly
  • Merlin
  • conjurer
  • ventriloquism
  • sleight-of-hand
  • card tricked
  • magician's assistant
  • abracadabra
  • spell-bound
 3 correct – very difficult

2 correct – difficult

1 correct – easy