Book 13 Workbook sample

The Funny Tree 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. Why might a tree be ‘funny’? Discuss the different meanings of funny – hilarious and strange. • The book uses the same idea as in Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree series: The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Folk of the Faraway Tree. You may like to source and read these book before or after reading The Funny Tree. After reading The Funny Tree contrast and compare the two stories. • Remind your child that the pictures with the coloured clouds indicate a dream sequence. 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. • Day 1: Ask your child to find a specific phrase on each page to help practice scanning and finding information quickly. • Day 2: Why didn’t Ben want to climb the tree? How did he feel? How did Pam feel about climbing the tree? Compare and contrast the two children’s responses. How can you make climbing a tree safer? • Day 3: Ben doesn’t want Pam to go inside the ugly man’s home. Why shouldn’t you go inside a stranger’s house? Help your child generate a number of reasons and explore each a little further. t • Day 4: Find in the text all the things that were made from candy. What is your favourite food? Why did Pam get sick? What did Ben put in his pocket just before he left? This fact is important at the end of the story. • Day 5: Describe the ugly man – appearance and attitudes/values. How did the t man feel about Pam and Ben leaving? Why? Ben finds some candy in his t pocket. What does that mean about their ‘dream’? Complete the activity sheets with your child and teach specific tcomprehension strategies such as going back into the story to check for the correct answer. © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com

A noun is a ‘naming word’, like cat, tree or doll. It is something that you can see, touch, hear or smell. You can put ‘the’ in front of nouns.* Circle the noun in each sentence to make it correct. Think of another noun you could use instead.** 1. It was flying with the (do, down, ducks). 2. They walk over to the (tree, these, their). 3. We can check that each (branch, first, open) is safe. 4. You can stand on this (just, giving, box). SAMPLE 5. Ben could see his (let, kite, might). * Except proper nouns **The substituted noun does not have to have the same meaning. It should just make sense grammatically. © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com

One word in each sentence does not make sense. Circle the word that does not make sense and write the correct word. walking First should How write giving 1. “Your pets these be fine,” said the man. SAMPLE2. “You can these on this paper,” the ugly man said to Ben. 3. How Ben writes that he went to the Land of Candy. 4. “Let are you?” Ben asks Pam. 5. “Thank you for live me your bed to sleep in,” said Pam 6. Tim and Sox were might around the lake. © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com

Add ‘y’ to these words. Circle the words in which the ‘y’ = /ee/ cand___ sk___ fl___ happ___ SAMPLE wind___ mumm__ sunn___ dr___ wh___ ugl___ dadd___ sill___ cr___ © 2015 Dr Lillian Fawcett & Julie Myers www.crackingtheabccode.com