📚 Part 1: Words and Clues

WALT: We Are Learning To use clues from a text and understand new words.

Draw a line to match each picture to the correct word.

🦉 1. Owl

🌿 2. Garden

🪺 3. Nest

🪶 4. Feathers

🌙 5. Night

🔎 6. Hunt

A. To look for food

B. A place where birds may live

C. A bird that is often awake at night

D. Soft coverings on a bird

E. The dark time after sunset

F. A place where plants grow

7. Tick two clues that could show an owl has visited a garden.

Feathers on the ground

An owl call at night

A bright rainbow at midday

A nest in a tree

✏️ Part 2: Retell and Respond

WALT: We Are Learning To retell key details and explain our thinking using clues from the reader.

8. Retell the reader. Write a short idea for each part.

Beginning: Who or what do we learn about?

Middle: What happens in the garden?

End: What happens at the end?

9. Where does the owl visit or live? Write one detail from the reader.

10. When is the owl most likely to be active? How do you know?

11. What might the owl be hunting? Use a clue from the reader.

12. How might the owl help the garden? Explain your idea.

13. Complete the sentences. Use the word bank.

Word bank: night nest feathers hunt

An owl may come out at __________.

An owl may live in a __________.

An owl uses its wings and __________ to fly.

An owl may __________ for food.

🎨 Part 3: Show Your Thinking

WALT: We Are Learning To show key details with a picture and clear labels.

14. Draw an owl in a garden. Label the owl, nest, feathers and one other garden feature.

Extension challenge: Write two more sentences about the owl. Use because in one sentence and so in the other.

Helpful ways to learn

For support: Read the questions aloud, allow the learner to point or talk before writing, use the picture clues, and provide a word card from the word bank. Scribe the learner’s words if needed.

Dyslexia-friendly options: Use a clear sans-serif font, a larger print size, extra spacing, a reading window or ruler, and a pale cream or pastel page. Give one question at a time and allow extra thinking time.

For advanced learners: Add precise details from the reader, explain evidence for an inference, and extend the retell with a setting or action word.

Teacher Answer Guide

Vocabulary match: 1–C, 2–F, 3–B, 4–D, 5–E, 6–A.

Question 7: Feathers on the ground and an owl call at night are suitable answers. A nest in a tree may also be accepted if supported by the reader.

Questions 8–12: Accept answers that retell or explain details shown in the reader. Look for the setting, the owl’s actions, the time of activity, what it may hunt, and a sensible garden connection.

Question 13: night, nest, feathers, hunt.

Question 14: Check that the drawing includes an owl, a garden setting and at least four labels.

Extension: Check that one sentence uses because to give a reason and one uses so to show a result.