<p>Name: ______Date: ______Pink Nails 1 Yes or No?</p><p>The wombat walked back to his burrow.</p><p>The wombat went Bash! into a tree.</p><p>The wombat’s nose was big and scary.</p><p>The human had lots of scary little teeth. </p><p>The wombat had long pink nails.</p><p>2 beginning middle end</p><p></p><p></p><p>Aim: To develop the use of meaning Activity: 1 Read the sentence, then write “yes” or “no” in the box. 2 Draw a story map to retell what happened in the beginning, middle and end. </p><p>Text: Pink Nails (narrative) Stage of reader: Early (GR Level 9)</p><p>© Oxford University Press 2009. This sheet may be copied and modified for non-commercial classroom use. Name: ______Date: ______Pink Nails</p><p> is Someone ______coming. are</p><p> come Here ______a human! comes</p><p> big “I can see a ______hairy nose!” said the human. dig</p><p> saw “I can ______a hairy nose,” see said the wombat.</p><p> lots “I can see ______of scary little teeth!” lost said the wombat.</p><p> pig “I can see long, ______nails!” pink said the wombat.</p><p> dig “The long, pink nails are ______in my burrow!” digging said the wombat.</p><p> close “Now the long pink nails are coming ______closer and ______!” said the wombat. </p><p>Aim: To develop the use of structure Activity: Write a word from the box to complete the sentence. </p><p>Text: Pink Nails (narrative) Stage of reader: Early (GR Level 9)</p><p>© Oxford University Press 2009. This sheet may be copied and modified for non-commercial classroom use. Name: ______Date: ______Pink Nails 1 Find and write: words with words with words that end words that end 5 letters double letters with “ing” with “y”</p><p>2 Find and count how many: scary human very</p><p>3 Find and draw: big teeth hairy nose long, pink nails page page page</p><p>Aim: To develop the use of visual Activity: 1 Make lists of words from the text. 2 Count the number of times the word appears in the text. 3 Find the word in the text, write the page number, then draw a picture to match the word. </p><p>Text: Pink Nails (narrative) Stage of reader: Early (GR Level 9)</p><p>© Oxford University Press 2009. This sheet may be copied and modified for non-commercial classroom use. </p>