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My Bio Poem

media type="file" key="Bio Poem.mov" width="300" height="300" Well done Abbey. An excellent Bio Poem which lets me know a little bit more about you! Lovely timing with your voice and the build in of the words. Excellent job!! Miss Crone :)

**PHOENIX READING WORK WEEK 10** __**Walt: clarify, understand and summarise text.**__

**School Journal 2000 Part Three Number One**

**CHIRPY**

**Here is a passage from the story. Unfortunately two words were spelt wrongly and eight punctuation errors were made when it was being copied out. Correct each error. The punctuation marks you need to use are listed below the passage.**

“What the? demanded a voice from behind him. Cam turned round, and the torch beam shone into his face blinding him the kitchen light flashed on. Cam!” said dad. “I came down here and saw the torch, and I ..... His voice faltered.

**... “ “ “,. and two capital letters**

**Below are some statements to do with the article. For each one either agree or disagree with it. Then write a sentence to explain your choice.**

Insects are pests that should be killed when they come inside **//Insects should only be killed if they are annoying you or are scaring you because they have a right to live as well as us.//**

You should not interfere when a cat catches some small creature **//I think you should because if you wouldn’t like it if that happened to you.//**

Cam’s father is sneaky <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//No, because when he heard the chirping he just grabbed the fly swat and tried to kill it, but that didn’t work so he wanted cam to grab the fly spray for him.//**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Cam is a disobedient boy <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//Yes, because he didn’t grab the fly spray when he was asked to because he didn’t want to kill the cricket.//**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Writers use adverbs to tell us how things are said.** <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**e.g. “No!” said Dad** **//sharply.//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//“//You said you were going to wait till morning to do that,” he said** **//accusingly.//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//Here are 5 more things said in the story. For each one add an adverb to say how it was probably said. Use a different adverb each time.//**
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">“Why kill it, Dad?” asked Cam **//sadly.//**
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">“I’m too tired to argue,” said Dad **//angrily//**
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">“I thought I told you not to shift that dishwasher,” said Dad **//anoyedly//**
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">“This one’s dead meat,” said Cam _
 * 5) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">“Noisy devil,” said Dad

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Complete the sentence below:**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I think the best word to describe Cam is **//caring//**___ because__ _**//he cares if an insect gets brought into the house by an animal and is nearly dead.//**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Many words appeal to one or more of our senses. For example, if we say something** **//sparkled//** **in the sun we are appealing to the sense of** **sight.** **Words like** **//click//** **and** **//crack//** **appeal to our sense of** **sound, while** **//sweet//** **and** **//sour//** **are** **taste** **words. Below is a list of words from this article which appeal to one or more of our senses. List each one in the chart under any sense that is appeals to.**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**meowing spiky hopped jumped scrunch scuttled chirp wriggle sighed cool rustle shining shrill muttered**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//jumped//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//wriggle//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//shinning//** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//spiky//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//cool//** ||  ||   || <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//scrunch//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//meowing//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//scuttled//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//chirp//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//rustle//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//shrill//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//muttered//** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//sighed//** ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**sight** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**touch** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**taste** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**smell** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**sound** ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//hopped//**

<span style="color: #1833df; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**ALL IN A DAY’S WORK** <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__**Walt: clarify, understand and summarise text.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was very good at spotting **//details//**. She noticed things that **//some//** __others missed - like “No Junk Mail” stickers. She had noticed many things about the house at Number 47 Craig Road. The leading to it was dark and__ **//weedy//**__. The house__ was old and grey, with of rust on its roof. It looked **//faded//**, and so did the tatty **//curtains//** that hung in the windows. It looked like a house that **//should//** be **//deserted//** - but someone lived there.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**curtains deserted details faded itself patches path should some weedy**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Every story has a key moment in it - a moment which shapes everything else that happens in the story. Listed below are some possible key moments in this story. Choose the one you think is the most important. Write a sentence to explain your choice.**
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky got some extra circulars to deliver
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky turned down her mother’s offer to deliver to number 47 for her
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky spotted that there was no milk bottle at number 47
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky decided to tell her mother about her suspicions
 * 5) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky urged her mother to go round and check out number 47
 * 6) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky’s mum called out “hello” and Becky saw someone move in the house
 * 7) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">The police broke into the house

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I think the key moment is number **//2//** __**_** because__ **_//she wanted to find out what was going on in that house.//**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Listed below are 4 pairs of details from the story. Each pair can be divided into a cause and an effect. In the space beside each sentence say which is the cause and which is the effect. One has been done for you as an example.**


 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//effect// || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was disappointed || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky had to deliver circulars and miss swimming || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//cause// ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//effect//** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was good at her job || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mrs Taylor sent extra circulars for Becky to deliver || <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//cause//** ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//cause//** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky felt like a wimp || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was scared going down the path at number 47 || <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//effect//** ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//cause//** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">There was no empty milk bottle at the gate || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky suspected something was wrong || <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//effect//** ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//effect//** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was given a gold bracelet || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky’s actions led to the rescue of Mrs Marsh || <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**//cause//** ||

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Here are some words and phrases that might describe Becky. Choose the two that you think are the most accurate. For each one provide one piece of supporting evidence from the story.**

<span style="color: #f33535; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**alert sensible easily frightened responsible brave polite**


 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">I think Becky is **//a risk taker//** __because__ _**//it would have been scary for her to walk up to the front door of number 47.//**
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">I think Becky is **//curious//** __because__ **//she wanted to see what was inside so she told her mum to go to the neighbour’s and to phone the police so the police came and knocked down the door and found that the Mrs Mash had broken her hip so she was happy that becky called the police and saved her.//**