A Very Busy Day Meaning (Fiction)

Name: ______Date: ______

Birthday Messages

True / False
Laura’s great-grandma sent letters and cards.
Laura’s cousin sent letters and cards, too.
Laura’s mum’s nan lived with her.
Laura’s mum’s nan talked to her on the phone.
Laura has a friend named Tim.
Tim sent Laura an email.
Laura sent her friend Abby a text message.
Laura talked to her grandpa online.

Aim: To develop the use of meaning

Activity: Refer to the text, read the sentence, then put a tick in the “true” or “false” column.

Text: Birthday Messages (factual recount) Stage of reader: Early (GR Levels 6–8)

Birthday Messages

The way we say “Happy birthday” has changed ______time.

My great-grandma said “Happy birthday” by ______letters and cards.

Sometimes the letters and cards went ____ ship to places far away.

My mum ______“Happy birthday” on the phone.

______, we say “Happy birthday” in lots of ways.

I sent my grandma ___ email.

Last week, it ____ my birthday.

My grandpa said “Happy birthday” to ____ online!

Aim: To develop the use of structure

Activity: Write a word from the box to complete the sentence.

Text: Birthday Messages (factual recount) Stage of reader: Early (GR Levels 6–8)

Birthday Messages

1 Find and write:

words that begin with ‘f’ / words that end with ‘y’ / words with two letters / compound words

2 Find and count how many:

happy / sent / away

3 Find and draw:

plane / ship / e-card
page / page / page

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.

Text: Birthday Messages (factual recount) Stage of reader: Early (GR Levels 6–8)