Marking time. Read this text and then answer the question below.

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1 Maring time Read thi text and then anwer the quetion below. Text : The Part-time Time-traveller You ma find thi hard to believe, but I once built a time machine. It wa made from crap, which I collected when I viited the local reccling center on weeend. Firt of all, I found ome old biccle part, including a real leather addle, which ou don t often ee nowada. wee later, I piced up a huge electric cloc, which I had een ear ago in the bu tation (before cloc went digital). Meanwhile, I had a real troe of luc ll the word in bold tpe are doing a imilar job. Explain what it i here. Now read thi text. Text B: The Part-time Time-traveller George ued to viit the local reccling center on weeend. He wa alwa rifling through the crap for old biccle part and other intereting thing. Hi neighbor thought that he wa a bit trange. One weeend, he wa een truggling home with a horribl heav old cloc that ome aid had come from the bu tation ten ear previoul. Then thing turned reall peculiar Both the text above tell the ame tor but in different wa. Explain the difference between text and text B.

2 Labeling a diagram Reread the text and B. Now draw a diagram of George Time Machine a ou imagine it. Label each part of the machine, aing what it i made from and what it doe. Remember: label conit of a few word, or even jut one word, that tell people about a particular part of a diagram.

3 Planning our own tor Loo over our wor in the previou exercie. Where i the tor of The Part-time Time Traveller et, and how did it begin? How would ou complete the tor? Plan our tor on thi page b writing hort note. Remember: You do not need to ue full entence when writing note. Character: Setting: Beginning: What happen: Ending:

4 Writing our tor Loo over the note ou wrote in the previou exercie, then write our tor here. Ue paragraph, and fit our tor into the pattern et out for ou. Either tart with: You ma find thi hard to believe, but I once built a time machine. It wa made from crap or George ued to viit the local reccling center on weeend. He wa alwa rifling through the crap Start here: The Part-time Time-traveller What happen:

5 Continuing our tor Ending:

6 w Maring time Read thi text and then anwer the quetion below. Text : The Part-time Time-traveller You ma find thi hard to believe, but I once built a time machine. It wa made from crap, which I collected when I viited the local reccling center on weeend. Firt of all, I found ome old biccle part, including a real leather addle, which ou don t often ee nowada. wee later, I piced up a huge electric cloc, which I had een ear ago in the bu tation (before cloc went digital). Meanwhile, I had a real troe of luc... a e O m b ll the word in bold tpe are doing a imilar job. Explain what it i here. The word in bold tpe tell u when thing happen. t Now read thi text. Text B: The Part-time Time-traveller George ued to viit the local reccling center on weeend. He wa alwa rifling through the crap for old biccle part and other intereting thing. Hi neighbor thought that he wa a bit trange. One weeend, he wa een truggling home with a horribl heav old cloc that ome aid had come from the bu tation ten ear previoul. Then thing turned reall peculiar Both the text above tell the ame tor but in different wa. Explain the difference between text and text B. Text i in the firt peron. The ubject i I. Text B i in the third peron. The ubject i George. I L The firt exercie tet recognition of word about when event happened. In the econd exercie, accept anwer that impl the text are written from different viewpoint. Explain that text i in the firt peron and text B i in the third peron if our child doe not now thee term.

7 t o h i Labeling a diagram Reread the text and B. Now draw a diagram of George Time Machine a ou imagine it. Label each part of the machine, aing what it i made from and what it doe. Remember: label conit of a few word, or even jut one word, that tell people about a particular part of a diagram. p N z f l o B T B maing a labeled diagram of George Time Machine, our child i learning another wa to communicate information. Encourage our child to tal in detail about the different part of the Time Machine that he or he ha labeled. i L

8 U w Planning our own tor a e Loo over our wor in the previou exercie. Where i the tor of The Part-time Time Traveller et, and how did it begin? How would ou complete the tor? Plan our tor on thi page b writing hort note. Remember: You do not need to ue full entence when writing note. m Character: O Setting: Beginning: b t What happen: I Ending: L Learning how to plan a tor will improve our child writing and increae hi or her confidence. When checing the plan, mae ure that he or he undertand that full entence and bet handwriting are not needed when maing note.

9 t h i Writing our tor Loo over the note ou wrote in the previou exercie then write our tor here. Ue paragraph, and fit our tor into the pattern et out for ou. Either tart with: You ma find thi hard to believe, but I once built a time machine. It wa made from crap or George ued to viit the local reccling center on weeend. He wa alwa rifling through the crap p N z f The Part-time Time-traveller Start here: What happen: l B T Thi activit give tor-writing practice. Compare our child tor to the note in the previou exercie, and a about an change made. Mae ure our child ha ept to the firt or third peron. Chec that paragraph have been ued correctl. i L

10 U w Continuing our tor a e O Ending: L Thi activit give tor-writing practice. ou read our child tor, chec that the baic entence tructure are correct, loo for lined idea, imaginative expreion and appropriate or intereting word. Praie the apect of our child tor that ou lie.