Book 18 Workbook sample

The Talking Bird Workbook Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers

SAMPLEIns Instructions The Workbooks are designed to provide comprehension activities that compliment and build on the Learn to Read Books. It is envisaged that students will read 6 pages of the book each night and there are two comprehension/activity sheets that relate to those 6 pages. Outlined below are some recommended oral activities: 1. Read the title and look at the pictures. • Ask your child to predict what the story might be about. • Discuss why a different font has been used on page 2. • Find out what your child knows about birds. Together, you could do an internet search and open up a site about birds which is designed for children. Discuss the key characteristics of birds. • Find a YouTube clip of a bird hatching. • Find a YouTube clip of a bird talking. Ask your child to tell you what he/she would teach a bird to say. 2. Ask your child to read 6 pages each night. At the end of each set of six pages you can do the following activities or ask the questions. Encourage your child to quickly find the sentence that supports his/her answer. • Day 1: See how many things your child can remember from Ben’s notes. Give prompts if necessary (e.g., What did Pam make from paper? What sort of books did Pam read?). • Day 2: Find the part that describes the bird that Ben wants to buy. Why did they take the bird to Nan and Pop’s house? What else could Ben have done to keep the bird a surprise? Encourage your child to generate several answers. • Day 3: What did Pam call the bird? What would you have called the bird? Encourage your child to generate several names and to give a reason. • Day 4: How did the bird learn to talk? How did Pam feel when Winks flew out t the window? What did Dad suggest? • Day 5: Where did Winks go? How did the little girl know where Winks lived? How do you think the girl felt about giving Winks back to Pam? • Help your child develop a ‘nutshell sentence’ which includes the title, author, t key characters and main idea of the story. t Complete the activity sheets with your child and teach specific comprehension strategies such as going back into the story to check for tt he correct answer. © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com

Work out the relationship between the first two words. Choose a word from the box which has the same relationship with the next word in the sentence. seven great children read try talk wheel book 1. Cake is to eat as book is to 2. Letter is to b as number is to SAMPLE3. Bird is to chirp as girl is to 4. Shirt is to sleeve as car is to 5. First is to win as fantastic is to 6. Cloth is to skirt as paper is to 7. Found is to lost as give-up is to 8. Work is to father as play is to © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com

Add ‘ir’ to these words. Choose the correct word for each sentence. 1. Pam got Winks for her th____sty ___________. sh____t b____thday 2. The little girl had a red th____d ___________. 3. Winks would only ___________. SAMPLE 4. At the end of the b____d ___________ week, Winks said d____t its name. f____st ch____p 5. Winks was a little, yellow st____ ___________. 6. When you are ___________, you drink a lot of water. © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com

Write down the names of the people in your family. Think of a present that they would like. Name Present SAMPLE © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com