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Lesson 8, part 1
Lesson 8, part 1
Literacy: short stories
Literacy: short s torie s
Reading
Reading
tip Reading

1 Before you read Look quickly at the story and When you see a word that you don’t
know, try to guess the meaning. Use
complete the sentences.
the pictures and the text to help you.
1 The girl in the story is called .
2 The story begins and ends in her .

t last, the bird
Afl ew back to the
apartment building where
Rasha lived, and back into
asha was in her bedroom. She was her bedroom. She climbed
Rtrying to write a story for her homework, off the bird’s back and got
but she didn’t have any good ideas. She into bed. ‘Goodbye, bird,’
stopped writing and started to draw. She she said. She quickly went
sketched a really big orange bird with a to sleep.
long blue tail. She was pleased with her picture!
After that, she decided to go to bed. It was late. hen Rasha woke up in the
Wmorning, she remembered
he was lying in her bed when her amazing adventure. ‘Oh,’
Sshe suddenly heard a noise. She she whispered, sadly. ‘It was just
looked up. The bird from her picture a dream.’ But then she smiled.
lo lo lo lo
was fl ying in through the window! Now she had an idea for her
w w w
wa
The bird asked, ‘Do you want to homework! She started to write.
Th Th Th Th h
fl y?’ Rasha was amazed. She was When she fi nished her story, she
fl fl fl fl fly y y y
scared of fl ying, but she loved looked up. She thought she saw something orange
sc sc sc sc
adventures, so she climbed onto the bird’s back. next to the window. Was it the bird? Or was it her
The bird zoomed out of the window and fl ew over the city. imagination?
Rasha saw skyscrapers and factories. They fl ew over the
offi ce building where her mum worked. They fl ew over the
harbour. The people in the boats looked very small. ‘Wow!’ Words in context
Rasha yelled. sketch zoom yell

remember whisper smile

2 3.19 Listen and read. 4 Look at the picture and tell a story
with your partner. You can use the words
3 After you read Read and answer the to help you.
questions.
Mudrik was playing in the park when …
1 What was Rasha’s problem?
2 What was unusual about the bird? opened closed saw
3 Why did Rasha climb onto the heard said went
bird’s back? ran said whispered
4 Read the two questions at the end shouted yelled
of the story. What do you think? asked smiled
Activity Book, Unit 3
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Lesson 8, part 2