Wetas with Backpacks

Wetas with Backpacks

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about reading an article to find information.
Wētā
Read Wetas with Backpacks (pages 22-25, Junior Journal 13, 1995) then answer the questions below.
 
a)

 

 Why are only a few giant wētā left in New Zealand?
 
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b)

Where do giant wētā live now?

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c)

 

 Why do the wētā have radios stuck on their backs?
 
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d)

 
Why does each radio use a different signal?
 
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e) Use facts about Mary to fill in the boxes.
Graphic organiser

 

Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Copyright: 
Image source: Giant weta, DOC (Crown copyright).
Text: "Wetas with Backpacks" pages 22-25 of Junior Journal 13, 1995.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking
Keywords: 
reports, article, junior journal, comprehension, retrieval chart, information skills
Description of task: 
Students are required to read an article, answer questions and complete a retrieval chart.
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-Progressions.

Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Making sense of text: processing system, set 3
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
    Y4 (11/1999)
a) Rats and mice have eaten most of them. easy
b) On islands (where there are no rats or mice). very easy
c) So Mary can keep track of them. moderate
d) So Mary can tell where each different weta is. difficult
e)

 

 i) Job – studying giant weta (to find the best ways to help them survive)/Scientist.
ii) Islands where giant weta live.
iii) Backpack radios, special aerial.		 difficult
easy
moderate