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Spring Reading and Writing

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Spring Reading and Writing

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📖 Part 1: Reading Comprehension

Read this passage about spring in New Zealand:

Spring arrives in New Zealand like a gentle whisper, painting the landscape with vibrant colours. The cherry blossoms dance in the warm breeze, their delicate petals floating down like pink snow. Native tui birds sing their melodic songs from the blooming kowhai trees, while lambs frolic in emerald green paddocks. The air smells fresh and sweet, filled with the fragrance of daffodils and the promise of summer adventures ahead.

1. Find and highlight three new or interesting words from the passage. Use context clues to write what you think they mean:
2. Circle examples of similes (comparisons using 'like' or 'as') in the passage above.
3. What is the main idea of this passage?

Spring weather is unpredictable

Spring brings beautiful changes to New Zealand

Animals are active in spring

Trees lose their leaves in spring

4. What is your favourite part of the passage? Why?

✏️ Part 2: Writing Planning

5. List five words that describe spring in New Zealand:

1. _____________ 2. _____________ 3. _____________ 4. _____________ 5. _____________

6. Plan your spring story or poem by filling in these boxes:

Setting: Where does your spring story take place?

Sounds of Spring: What can you hear?

Smells and Feelings: What can you smell? How does spring make you feel?

7. Create your own simile about something in spring:

The _________________ is like _________________________________

🌸 Part 3: Creative Writing

8. Write your spring story or poem here. Use your planning from Part 2 and include descriptive language and at least one simile:
9. After sharing your writing with a partner, write one thing they liked about your descriptive language:

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