EXTENSIVE READING PACKAGE - bppswebsite



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Contents

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← Mandatory reading passages and follow-up

activities

▪ Reading Passage 1 :

( ‘Amazing Black Hole’

▪ Reading Passage 2 :

( ‘Puppies for Sale’

▪ Reading Passage 3:

( ‘A Present for Willa Jane’

← Newspaper cut-outs and activities

‘SNIP N SAY’

← ‘OUR VALUES IN THE NEWS - RESPONSIBILITY'

← ‘PICTURES in PRINT’

← Activities from National Geographic

Magazine

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Have I earned my reading awards ? [pic]

| | |I’ve completed the |To be completed by person in-charge : |

|No. | |activity on: | |

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| | | |Number of reward stamps earned |Signature |

| |Mandatory reading passages |

|1. |Reading Passage 1 | | | |

| |(‘Amazing Black Hole’ |____________ | | |

| |Reading |1 stamp | | |

|2. |Reading Passage 1 | | | |

| |(‘’Amazing Black Hole’ |____________ | | |

| |Activity Time |2 stamps | | |

|3. |Reading Passage 2 | | | |

| |(‘Puppies for Sale’ |____________ | | |

| |Reading |1 stamp | | |

|4. |Reading Passage 2 | | | |

| |(‘Puppies for Sale’ |___________ | | |

| |Activity Time |2 stamps | | |

|5. |Reading Passage 3 | | | |

| |(‘A Present for Willa Jane’ |____________ | | |

| |Reading |1 stamp | | |

|6. |Reading Passage 3 | | | |

| |(‘A Present for Willa Jane’ |___________ | | |

| |Activity Time |2 stamps | | |

| | Newspaper cut-outs and activities |

|5. |‘SNIP N SAY’ | | | |

| |Activity 1a (i) : ‘Our Values in the News: |____________ | | |

| |Responsibility’ |4 stamps | | |

|6. |‘SNIP N SAY’ | | | |

| |Activity 1a (ii) : |____________ | | |

| |‘Our Values in the News: Responsibility’ |4 stamps | | |

|7. |‘SNIP N SAY’ | | | |

| |Activity 2 : |____________ | | |

| |‘Pictures in Print’ |4 stamps | | |

| |Activities from National Geographic Magazine |

|8. |Activity 1 | | | |

| |Activity sheet from magazine |____________ | | |

| | |3 stamps | | |

|9. |Activity 2 | | | |

| |Activity sheet from magazine |____________ | | |

| | |3 stamps | | |

|10. |Activity 3 | | | |

| |Briefly describe an interesting article and |____________ | | |

| |illustrate |5 stamps | | |

| | Other reading materials |

|11. |Earn 3 stamps for every 5 books read. | | | |

| |I have read a total of |Total number of stamps | | |

| | |earned | | |

| |books in Term 2 as | | | |

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| |recorded in my Reading | | | |

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| |Record. |3 stamps | | |

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Let’s READ

Instructions:

← Read the passages. Then carry out the follow-up activities.

Reading Passage 1 Date : _________

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|     How many things can you see in the night sky? A lot! On a clear night you might see the Moon, some planets, and thousands of |

|sparkling stars. |

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|You can see even more with a telescope. You might see stars where before you only saw dark space. You might see that many stars look |

|larger than others. You might see that some stars that look white are really red or blue. With bigger and bigger telescopes you can see|

|more and more objects in the sky. And you can see those objects in more and more detail. |

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|But scientists believe there are some things in the sky that we will never see. We will not see them even with the biggest telescope in|

|the world, on the clearest night of the year. |

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|That's because they are invisible. They are the mysterious dead stars called black holes. |

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|You might find it hard to imagine that stars die. After all, our Sun is a star. Year after year we see it up in the sky, burning |

|brightly, giving us heat and light. The Sun certainly doesn't seem to be getting old or weak. But stars do burn out and die after |

|billions of years. |

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|As a star's gases burn, they give off light and heat. But when the gas runs out, the star stops burning and begins to die. |

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|As the star cools, the outer layers of the star pull in toward the center. The star squashes into a smaller and smaller ball. If the |

|star was very small, the star ends up as a cold, dark ball called a black dwarf. If the star was very big, it keeps squashing inward |

|until it's packed together tighter than anything in the universe. |

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|Imagine if the Earth were crushed until it was the size of a tiny marble. That's how tightly this dead star, a black hole, is packed. |

|What pulls the star in toward its center with such power? It's the same force that pulls you down when you jump — the force called |

|gravity. A black hole is so tightly packed that its gravity sucks in everything — even light. The light from a black hole can never |

|come back to your eyes. That's why you see nothing but blackness. |

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|So the next time you stare up at the night sky, remember: there's more in the sky than meets the eye! Scattered in the silent darkness |

|are black holes — the great mystery of space. |

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Reading Passage 1 Date : _________

Activity Time

What might happen to the Sun billions of years from now? Describe the process using details from the article. Write in the space given below.

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Reading Passage 2 Date : _________

A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read "Puppies for Sale". Signs have a way of attracting children, and soon a little boy appeared at the store and asked, "How much are you gonna sell those puppies for?" The store owner replied, "Anywhere from $30 to $50." The little boy reached into his pocket and pulled out some change. "I have $2.37, can I look at them?" The store owner smiled and whistled. Out of the back of the store came his dog running down the aisle followed by five little puppies. One puppy was lagging considerably behind. Immediately the little boy singled out the lagging, limping puppy.

"What's wrong with that little dog?" he asked. The man explained that when the puppy was born the vet said it had a bad hip socket and would limp for the rest of its life. The little boy got really excited and said "That's the puppy I want to buy!" The man replied "No, you don't want to buy that little dog. If you really want him, I'll give him to you." The little boy got upset. He looked straight into the man's eyes and said, "I don't want you to give him to me. He is worth every bit as much as the other dogs and I'll pay the full price. In fact, I will give you $2.37 now and 50 cents every month until I have him paid for.”

The man replied, "You really don't want to buy this puppy, son. He's never gonna be able to run, jump and play like other puppies." The little boy reached down and rolled up his pant leg to reveal a badly twisted, crippled left leg supported by a big metal brace. He looked up at the man and said, "Well, I don't run so well myself and the little puppy will need someone who understands." The man was now biting his bottom lip. Tears welled up in his eyes. He smiled and said, "Son, I hope and pray that each and every one of these puppies will have an owner such as you."

Reading Passage 2 Date : _________

Activity Time : Puppies for Sale

← Words that are used to describe things (nouns) are called ADJECTIVES. How would you describe the little boy in the story which you have just read? In the given spaces below, write down as many adjectives as possible which describe the boy. An example is given for you.

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Reading Passage 3 Date : _________

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A Present for Willa Jean

"When will they be here?" asked Ramona Quimby, who was supposed to be dusting the living room but instead was twirling around trying to make herself dizzy. She was much too excited to dust.

"In half an hour," cried her mother from the kitchen, where she and Ramona's big sister Beatrice were opening and closing the refrigerator and oven doors, bumping into one another, for getting where they had laid the pot holders, finding them and losing the measuring spoons.

The Quimbys were about to entertain their neighbours at a New Year's Day brunch to celebrate Mr Quimby's finding a job at the ShopRite Market after being out of work for several months. Ramona liked the word brunch, half breakfast and half lunch, and secretly felt the family had cheated because they had eaten their real breakfast earlier. They needed their strength to get ready for the party.

"And Ramona," said Mrs Quimby as she hastily as she laid out the things on the dining-room table, "be nice to Willa Jean, will you? Try to keep her out of everyone's hair."

"Ramona, watch what you're doing!" said Mr Quimby, who was laying a fire in the fireplace. "You almost knocked over the lamp."

Ramona stopped twirling, staggered from dizziness, and made a face. Willa Jean, the messy little sister of her friend Howie Kemp was sticky, crumby, into everything, and always had to have her own way.

"And behave yourself," said Mr Quimby. "Willa Jean is our guest."

“Not my guest!” thought Ramona, who saw quite enough of Willa Jean when she played at Howie's house. "If Howie can't come to the brunch because he has a cold, why can't Willa Jean stay home with their grandmother, too?" Ramona asked.

"I really don't know," said Ramona's mother. "That isn't the way things worked out. When the Kemps asked if they could bring Willa Jean, I could hardly say no."

I could, thought Ramona, deciding that since Willa Jean, welcome or not, was coming to the brunch, she had better prepare to defend her possessions. She went to her room, where she swept her best crayons and drawing paper into a drawer and covered them with her pyjamas. Her Christmas roller skates and favourite toys, battered stuffed animals that she rarely played with but still loved, went into the corner of her closet. There she hid them under her bathrobe and shut the door tight.

But what could she find to amuse Willa Jean? If Willa Jean did not have something to play with, she would run tattling to the grown-ups. "Ramona hid her toys!" Ramona laid a stuffed snake on her bed but upon thinking again wondered if even Willa Jean could love a stuffed snake.

What Ramona needed was a present for Willa Jean, a present wrapped and tied with a good hard knot, a present that would take a long time to unwrap. Next to receiving presents, Ramona liked to give presents, and if she gave Willa Jean a present today, she would not only have the fun of giving, but of knowing the grown-ups would think, Isn't Ramona kind, isn't she generous to give Willa Jean a present? And so soon after Christmas, too. Ramona was imagining that they would all look at her and say that she is just like one of Santa's helpers, a regular little Christmas elf.

Ramona smiled at herself in the mirror and was pleased. Over her shoulder she saw reflected in the mirror a half-empty box of tissue papers on the floor beside her bed. A box of tissue papers! That was the answer to a present for Willa Jean. She ran into the kitchen, where Beezus was beating muffin batter while her father fried sausages and her mother struggled to pour a large bowl of salad onto a serving plate.

"A present is a good idea," agreed Mrs Quimby when Ramona asked permission, "but a box of tissue papers doesn't seem like much of a present." She quickly glanced at the clock on the stove.

Ramona was insistent. "Willa Jean would like it. I know she would." There was no time for explaining what Willa Jean was to do with the box of tissue papers.

"All right," she consented. "There's an extra box in the bathroom cupboard."

By the time Ramona had wrapped a large box of Kleenex in leftover wrapping paper, the guests had begun to arrive. First came the Huggins and McCarthys and little Mrs Swink in a bright-green pants suit. Umbrellas were leaned outside the front door, coats taken into the bedroom, and the usual grown-up remarks exchanged. "Happy New Year!" "Good to see you!" "We thought we would have to swim over, it's raining so hard." "Do you think this rain will ever stop?"

Reading Passage 3 Date : _________

Activity Time : ‘A Present for Willa Jean’

    

In the story you found out that “What Ramona needed was a present for Willa Jean, a present wrapped and tied with a good hard knot, a present that would take a long time to unwrap.”

← Why do you think she decided to give Willa Jean a box of tissue papers? In the space below, write down what Ramona was thinking of when she saw the box of tissue papers.

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Responsibility is …

← doing the things you say you will do

← accepting the results that come from your actions

← knowing the difference between right and wrong

← stepping up to do something when no one else will do it

← thinking things out and making informed decisions

What to do?

Choose only one of the following ativities:

← Activity 1a(i)

1. Look through today’s sports section in the newspaper and find a sportsboy/sportsman or sportsgirl/sportswoman you would like as a role model.

2. Cut out the news article

3. Paste it in the appropriate space given. Then complete the follow up activity.

OR

← Activity 1a(ii)

4. Find a story of someone being responsible or taking responsibility.

5. Cut out the news article

6. Paste it in the appropriate space given. Then complete the follow up activity.

7. Write out what the person did and why it was responsible.

SNIP N SAY Activity 1a(i) Date : ___________

← Activity 1a(i)

Paste your news in the space below.

Carry out the following activity.

What to do:

8. My role model is involved in _________________________ (name the type of sports).

9. Write down a few sentences to say why you would choose this person to be your role model.

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SNIP N SAY Activity 1a(ii) Date: _________

← Activity 1a(ii)

Paste your news in the space below.

SNIP N SAY Activity 1a(ii) Date: _________

Carry out the following activity.

What to do:

10. Write out what the person did and why it was responsible.

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|Terms to Learn |

|photograph |a picture of a person, place, or event taken with a camera |

|illustration |a drawing used to tell a story to clarify an idea |

|caption |A written explanation that appears above or below a photograph |

|picture Story |An individual photograph or group of photographs used to tell a story with little or no accompanying |

| |text. |

Photographs and picture stories recreate an event for the newspaper reader and give him or her the feeling of being there. Photographs and illustrations are selected for many different reasons.

What to do:

• Look through the newspaper today. Which photo in today's news is the most interesting?

• Cut out the photograph. If it has a caption, include it.

• Paste it in the appropriate spaces given.

• On the given lines, write down why you think this photograph or group of photographs was selected to be published in the newspaper.

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• Which photograph makes you want to read the story? Paste your news photograph here.

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SNIP N SAY Activity 2 Date: _________

• Write three sentences about your favourite photo.

• Do you like having your picture taken? Why?

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ACTIVITIES BASED ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

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National Geographic Activity Time

Complete the following tasks and file them in your ‘I Am An Avid Reader’ File to earn your reward:

← Complete at least 2 activities given in the National Geographic Magazine

← On a separate piece of paper, describe briefly an interesting article which you have read in the magazine. You may wish to illustrate your work.

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I've travelled the world twice over, 

Met the famous; saints and sinners, 

Poets and artists, kings and queens, 

Old stars and hopeful beginners, 

I've been where no-one's been before, 

Learnt secrets from writers and cooks 

All with one library ticket 

To the wonderful world of books.

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Primary

3

Term 2

‘SNIP N SAY’ is a newspaper-cutting activity.

You are required to do the following:

1. Look at your newspaper and select a news article according to the given theme/topic.

2. Cut out the news article or the required information.

3. Paste it in the appropriate spaces given.

4. Complete the accompanying activity.

SNIP N SAY

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SNIP N SAY Actvity 1(a) Date : ___________

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SNIP N SAY Activity 2 Date: _________

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YIPEE!!! I have successfully collected stamps by _______________(date)

I have successfully earn ed my first ‘AVID READER’ Badge ! ( (((

I have not collected the required number of stamps. I will have to try harder.

What’s more, it’s such a FUN activity. Are you an AVID reader? If you think you are, come on board the reading journey and be rewarded with the AVID READER reading badge.

Here’s how you earn the badge :

• Carry out the tasks and activities in this booklet during the Extensive Reading (ERP) period independently i.e. every morning from 7.15 to 7.30 a.m.

• Every task / activity completed appropriately will earn you the assigned number of stamps as listed on the REWARDS Table page. Collect 30 stamps and win the AVID READER badge.

• Your teacher will give instructions for the completion of each activity before the start of the reading session.

• You are encouraged to use the ERP (Extensive Reading Period every morning from 7.15 to 7.30 a.m.) to complete the tasks and activities. If you are unable to complete them during the ERP, you may complete them at your on time.

Name: _______________ ( )

Class: Primary 3 (___)

“I AM AN AVID

READER”

Extensive Reading Package

Avid Reader Reward System

SNIP N SAY Activity 2 Date: _________

Date: __________

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PICTURES IN PRINT!

PICTURES IN PRINT !

READING OPENS OUR MINDS TO A WINDOW OF KNOWLEDGE.

SNIP N SAY Activity 1a(i) Date: _________

Our Values

in the News

-RESPONSIBILITY

PUPPIES FOR SALE

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