Reading - Level 2
Week 4 - Term 4
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Day 1: Comprehension
What prize did the three friends win?
How do you think the three friends felt about being locked in the zoo as part of the exhibition?
What made being in the zoo “quite fun”?
What made the three friends miss home?
How did the humans talk to the Beevack? What makes you think this?
When the humans first heard a message in their mind, who did they think it was from?
Do you think it would be hard to tell who is talking to you in your head? How could you fix this?
Day 2: Vocabulary
Can you figure out what each of these alien words could mean? Describe what each thing looks like and draw a picture of it.
The story has many clues on how each thing may look so use this to help you.
Day 3:
Vocabulary - what does each of these words mean?
Write the meaning of the words then write each in a sentence of your own to show you understand their meaning.
Tangled - ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My sentence
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Queue -
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My sentence
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Deafening -
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My sentence
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Word cloze
So now, here they were – on ___________ in the zoo. Luckily, it had turned out to be quite fun. “Look at the massive ____________!” Lin said on their first day. She sounded almost proud. The crowd of aliens was walking straight ____________ the glow bears and the beevack. _____________! They wanted to see the humans. When a huge crowd is watching, it can be hard not to show off. After ____________ and waving for a while, Mere did a handstand. The aliens loved that. So James joined in with a ____________. Lin juggled some rolled-up socks. The clapping was ____________ – partly because the Zeelonites all had eight hands. “Hey, you guys!” said Lin. “We’re stars!” She waved to the Zeelonite kids. They waved back so hard that some of their arms got ____________ up.
Day 4: Letter writing
Imagine you are the Beevack that returned to earth with the three friends. Write a letter to your Zoo friends in Zeelon about everything you have experienced on Earth.
Remember to give them a very good description of everything because they will not know what anything on Earth looks like.
Day 5: Design your own ZOO on earth!
Imagine you open up your own zoo. You can bring some of the animals from Zeelon to your zoo and you can also have some animals from earth.
You will need to think carefully about where you will place each animal and what food you will need to feed them. When you have decided where each animal will go, draw a map of your zoo on a separate piece of paper.
Your map should include your Zoo name and labels.
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