Supported Task: Fill in the blanks

 

Finding Treasure in Minecraft

 

Wed: Response to Text

 Lost Treasure

Instructions: 

Highlight the correct answer for each question.

Questions:

1. What is the wharenui?

a) Capital city of NZ b) cousin 

 c)meeting place d) Kitchen

2. What is another name for verandah?

a) deck. b) patio 

c) balcony d) all of the above.

3.What was his ‘something special’ that he needed to do with Hoani?

1. Make breakfast b) Find Nana’s special spoon

      c)   Play a trick on his cousin Hoani d) Go swimming at the local river

 

4. How do you know he didn’t want to help his Uncle Dan set up the chairs? 

Answer:  “I sighed and went to get dressed”.

5. What does hovered mean?

1. Creep up b) hanging over

      c)  lingered d) all of the above.

6.. Who is the ‘first person’ narrating this story?

1. Hoani b) Waihuia

      c)  No one d) Uncle Dan

7. How do you know it is Waihuia narrating this story?

=>  “When I woke up, my cousin’s sleeping bag was empty. The only people in the wharenui were two great-aunties and Nanny”. 

8. Why did Wai want to mimi?  

1.  He drank a lot of fizzies b) He finish having a shower

      c) he was trying to get away from his mum    d) He was cold

9. What didn’t keep Wai from getting to Hoani’s special mission?

a) Helping mum clean the wharepaku b) Looking after Aunty Jane while she was eating

c) getting lost through the woods d) Looking after his cousin Pounamu crying baby

10) Have you had a ‘special mission’?  But you’ve been interrupted helping others out?  

How did you feel?

→no and never had a special mission

Lost Treasure

 Lost Treasure

Instructions: 

Highlight the correct answer for each question.

Questions:

1. What is the name of the cousin that liked playing tricks?

a) Jack Sparrow b) Wai

c) Hoani d) David

2. Why did he ‘wake up paralysed’?

a) he got bitten by a spider.

b) He had been dancing all night

c) he was plastic-wrapped to the stretcher

d) he had no idea.

3.True or false:  When he was young, his cousin told him to eat the dead spider.

a)True b) False

 

4. How do you know if he ate/ didn’t eat the dead spider?

Answer:  because he convinced him

5. What does comeuppance mean?

1. A cup of tea b) Karmar

      c)   Punishment d) A ride at rainbows end

6.. Who told the story of Nanny’s teaspoon Collection?

1. Hoani b) Wai

      c)  No one

d) Aunty Pam

7. When did Nanny get her first teaspoon?

1.  Eight years old b) Nine years old

       c)  ten years old d) eleven years old 

8. Why did Nan take the teaspoon?  

1.  it was beautiful b) She needed it to make her coffee

      c) it had her name on it    d) it was expensive

9. What does wharekai mean?

a) Name of a street b) Kitchen

c) bedroom d) a suburb in NZ

10) What is something important to your whanau that is valuable and can’t be replaced?

→ our last name

Treasure Facts about Gold

 

This week my number is 1372