WALT: Infer and answer questions about the picture book.
A Inferring: Answer the questions about The Little Gardener by Emily Hughes.
1. Why does the garden mean so much to the child? 2. What does it mean when it says ‘it wasn’t that he didn’t work hard’? 3. Why was he not much good at gardening?
4. Why does he work on the garden for so long? 5. Why was the garden dying? 6. Why would the child have no home? 7. Why would the child have no supper? 8. How does the garden give ‘the someone’ hope? 9. How does the garden make ‘the someone’ want to work harder?
10. Why did the little gardener sleep for so long? 11. How did the garden change?
B Choose one of the questions above and draw a response. Discuss with a partner.
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Strand: Reading Element: Communicating LO 2; Exploring and Using LO 8, 9 Strand: Writing Element: Exploring and Using LO 9