Reading - Early Level 3

Day 1: Comprehension Questions

1. Who were the characters in the story?

2. What did the boys love to do that made people angry at them?

3. What did the people of the land do to teach the boys a ‘lesson’?

4. How are the boys remembered at night?

5. Navigators use the Magellanic clouds to….

6. Why did Ma’afu give his sons plantations on the other side of the island?

7. What do you think the sons could have done to get forgiveness from the people?

8. What is a Humu?

9. Why do you think the people in the island wear different clothes to what we wear in NZ?

10. Why were the villagers really scared when the boys returned from the waterhole?

From the story, create an alternative ending (change how the story ends).

Write here:

On _____ nights, we can still see the boys. They form two bright patches near the _____ _____ that we call the Magellanic _____. We can also see the _______ (Humu) and the _____ (Toloa). Humu is a ______ patch known as the Coal _____. We know Toloa as the Southern Cross. ________ navigators used the _______ Clouds to find the north and they used the ______ Cross to find the ______ .