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Group 1
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Working with the teacher
• As a group, read the text Oil Spill, by Tricia Oktober.
• Next, read through the questions provided.
• Your job is to decide as a group what ‘type’ of questions each of them
are (literal, inferred or applied) and sort them into columns.
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literal questions have answers directly stated in the text,
inferred questions will have answers suggested but not
stated in the text, and:
applied questions are ones that you will have to draw on your
own life experiences to answer.
Group 2
• Green box reading cards – please write your
answers in your literacy / English books
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Group 3
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• Read the short story Flash Flood.
• When you have finished reading, you need to
come up with 6 questions about the story. You
should have – 2 literal questions, 2 inferred
questions and 2 applied questions.
• Record these questions in your English book
(make sure you leave space for answers)
• Swap your book with another group member and
see if you can answer each other’s questions.
Group 4
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Computer Group:
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Visit the All Programs folder
Go into the Languages folder
Open the ‘Upper Primary folder’
Select the fiction story Incident at Dusk, by Claudia Baharini
Read through the story and then select the Questioning tab at the top
of the page.
• Answer the questions by typing the answers into a word document –
remember to print it out and stick it into your English book.