T1+Literacy

My Bio Poem

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 * Fantastic Bio Poem Levi. It tells me a little bit more about you! Excellent voiceovers and great builds used for your words. **
 * Miss Crone :) **

WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10 __WALT: clarify, summarise and understand text__

**School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One**

**THE GAME Miss Crone's corrections in green **

Here is a list of descriptive words and phrases. Choose the three that your think //best// describes the Space World game players. Choose the three that you think //best// describe the arcade itself. //Base your choices on what you’re told on page 2.//

**young polite aggressive badly-behaved modest keen to play dark noisy well-lit**

**virtually adult-free menacing cheerful lowlife scum**


 * **Words or phrases describing the players** || **Words or phrases describing the arcade** ||
 * //aggressive [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]// || //adult-free [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]// ||
 * //lowlife// || //dark [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]// ||
 * //young [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]// || <span style="color: #d10b0a; font: 13px/19px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">//noisy [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]// ||

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Answer these:** <span style="color: #d10b0a; font: 13px/19px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">//The fingers on his left and danced over four keys set on a lever ** only one word Levi! **// <span style="color: #140b0b; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2.Write down three details that show that Matt was badly affected by his experiences in playing the new machine <span style="color: #c50000; font: 13px/19px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">//Matts face was pale, his eyes flicked from side to side and his whole face was screwed up //
 * 1) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Matt’s ‘feet rested on pedals, and the fingers of his left hand danced over four keys set on a lever’. Which one word in this sentence tells you that Matt was a skillful player?

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; margin: 0px;"> 3.Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters? //Because// //they had no reflexes //

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete any words that don’t apply:** <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I like/don’t like arcade games because <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The best arcade game I’ve ever played is because

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself:** <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This story suggest two things that many people will _ disturbing. One is that we are already under _ from alien invaders. While for years much has been made of sightings of strange craft in our, the idea that aliens are fighting a secret war against us is _. The second disturbing thing is the ___ that children are the key to defeating__ _ aliens. And what if harmless fun in arcades is real _ against a _ enemy. Does that mean other arcade games aren’t what they seem? Perhaps when you a character in an arcade game, a real person somewhere in the world!

<span style="color: #d90907; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**attack dangerous dies find idea new shoot skies these warfare**

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The writer uses some interesting verbs in this story. Match six of the words below with the meanings listed on the left.
 * 1) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">slid out of control
 * 2) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">moved and stopped abruptly
 * 3) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">grabbed tightly
 * 4) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">tearing
 * 5) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">sprang
 * 6) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">rushed at great speed

<span style="color: #c3070a; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**shoved skidded flicked gripped jerked bounded hurtled clawing**

<span style="color: #3a00ff; font: 21px/31px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10

<span style="color: #2f0ddb; font: 17px/25px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**THERE STOOD A MAN**

<span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Here are ten events from the story, but they’re in the wrong order. Put them in the right order.** **You only have 8 and 9 in the wrong place - good work Levi**
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">George woke up about mid-day
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">George rubbed the bump on his head and wondered where he was
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">George thought about Robbie Burn’s lines about ghosts and ghoulies
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A Maori suddenly appeared ahead of him
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">George followed the Maori along a faint track
 * 6) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Night began to fall
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">George smelled food
 * 8) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Shorty told George there was no-one with him when he came into camp
 * 9) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The men in the camp stared at George as he swayed unsteadily
 * 10) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Shorty told George he would lead him down the old greenstone trail

<span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Complete these sentences using information from the story**
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">George didn’t know where he was because__-__**//he was lost in the mountains//** ** he bumped his head **
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> George started thinking of ‘ghoulies and ghosties’- **//Because Robbie Burns told him//** **//about ghosts and ghoulies//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The Maori guide suggested that George keep quiet by **not telling his friends that there was a moari on the track** **signalling him with his finger**
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The first sign that there was a camp nearby was that **George could smell the food his friends were making** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]

<span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**When the Maori guide pointed at George’s feet and beckoned, George took this as a signal to walk. See if you can come up with a hand signal for each of the following commands. Write your description beside each command:**
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Keep quiet
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Speed up
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Stop
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Come here

<span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete the words which don’t apply** <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">If I had found myself lost like George I would have _ <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I think the best word to describe George is because <span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I enjoyed/did not enjoy this story because

<span style="color: #000000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**If you were alert when reading the story the idea that the Maori guide was a ghost would not have surprised you. List below 4 clues given by the writer to suggest that the Maori was a ghost**