When the air moves 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Further Resources This task is about finding information and making inferences from a text. Read the poem "When the air moves" School Journal, Part 2, No 2, Learning Media 1999 to help answer the following questions. Question 2Change answer a) Write down one group of words that is repeated in the first three verses of the poem. Question 2Change answer b) When the girl whistles, plays her recorder, and blows out the candles, how is she making the air move? Question 2Change answer c) What is the main letter sound which is repeated in the first verse? Question 2Change answer d) Write down four words in the first verse that describe the sounds the air makes. 1. 2. 3. 4. Question 2Change answer e) The air acts like a person when it "steals" the school notice. Write down another word in the poem which describes the air as if it was a person. Question 2Change answer f) Write down a word in the third verse which makes it sound as though the waves are acting like a person. Question 2Change answer g) Write down one way the last verse is different from the others. Task administration: This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with some auto-marking). Copyright: When the air moves - Text and Images first published by Learning Media Limited in School Journal on behalf of the Ministry of Education. © Eva Petro. Illustrations © Crown 1999. Reproduced with permission. Source: School Journal, Part 2, No 2, Learning Media 1999. Level: 3 Curriculum info: English, Making meaning, Reading Key Competencies: Thinking, Using language, symbols, and texts Keywords: comprehension, poem, poetry, personification, repetition, language features, SJ-2-2-1999 Description of task: Students read a poem about air to answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided. Curriculum Links: Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading: This resource helps to identify students’ ability to: use comprehension strategies recognise language features as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions. Answers/responses: Y6 (08/1999) a) When the air moves. easy b) By blowing. easy c) W difficult d) whooshes wheezes whispers whines difficult e) Any 1 of: Teases (the washing line). Ties (my hair in knots). Blows (strange things into our garden). Whispers. Wheezes. Whines. moderate f) sprint moderate g) Any 1 of: The girl is making the air move. The wind is controlled. The first line of the verse is different. It describes good things happening. easy Full moon tiger The Dinosaur climber's kit The World Cup Final Aeromania Going up in the lift Song of the vagabond tomato II Song of the Vagabond Tomato Magic stuff Dinosaurs II Kokeshi dolls Flea feast Read a poem Poems with verbs, nouns and adjectives Let's hear it! What could it be?
