Reading - Level 3/level 4

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Oakley Creek

Read the text and find the answers to these questions.

Oakley Creek vocab task

Match the word from the text to its meaning.

Oakley Creek True or False Statements

• If you think the statement is true put a “T” in the box beside it, if you think it is false put an “F” in the box beside it.

Oakley Creek Event Ordering

Place numbers in the boxes to show the correct order of events. Use the numbers 1-7.

Oakley Creek Diary Entry

• Pretend you are Faith and write a diary entry recounting your day. Include all the main events from the text in your diary entry, and your thoughts and feelings at different times

Oakley Creek Word Cloze

Fill in the blanks using the words below

Faith is growing up, and this is causing some changes to happen for her. One big change that is happening for her is at school. At school Faith has gotten in with a new group of

friends, ______________ with a girl called Destiny who seems at have a great deal of control over her. Faith’s old group of friends are worried about her, and she has

______________ her teachers frowning at her when she hangs out with the new group. Faith thinks the new group is much more interesting than her old group and that her old

friends are ______________ jealous of her getting to hang out with the ‘cool’ kids.

Destiny makes a plan for Faith to come to Oakley Creek on the weekend where her and her friends hang out. Faith has never been before but she is ______________ to go as

she thinks she is old enough now and knows it will help her to fit in. And while she doesn’t feel comfortable with lying to her mother she goes through with the ______________ anyway. Her mother knows something is up, as she should have a note with her if she needed to go to school on a Saturday. Faith’s mum tries to walk with her down to the

school but Faith is able to ______________ her out of it.

Once at the creek Faith is pleased, as she knows she has earnt some ______________ with the other kids. None of their parents mind them going to the creek but they know

Faith’s would if she knew. Faith's mother and teacher arrive to try and find her. Faith quickly ______________ her things and knows she is definitely not ‘cool’. She doesn’t realise how

lucky she is to have a mother that cares about her so much.