🎯 WALT & Success Criteria

We Are Learning To (WALT): Understand and answer comprehension questions about Trash to deepen our understanding of the story and characters.

I can:

✅ Answer questions about the chapter I have read

✅ Use clues from the story to explain how a character feels

✅ Understand and use new vocabulary words

✅ Retell the main events of the chapter in order

💡 You can answer by writing, drawing, or telling your teacher out loud — all responses are great!

📚 Part 1: Comprehension Questions

Read each question carefully. Use the sentence starters to help you. You may write, draw, or tell your teacher your answer.

Sentence starter: The main character is ___________

Sentence starter: The story takes place at ___________

Sentence starter: The character's problem is ___________

Sentence starter: The character tries to ___________

Sentence starter: I think the character feels ___________ because ___________

📝 Part 2: Vocabulary Focus

Here are some important words from the chapter. Read each word and its meaning. Then complete the activity below.

Word Bank:

🔹 Rubbish dump — a place where people throw away their waste and trash

🔹 Scavenge — to search through rubbish to find useful or valuable things

🔹 Poverty — when people do not have enough money for food, shelter, or clothing

🔹 Suspicious — feeling that something is wrong or that someone cannot be trusted

🔹 Evidence — information or objects that help prove something is true

Word 1: ___________

Word 2: ___________

Raphael had to ___________ through piles of rubbish every day to find things he could sell.

🗺️ Part 3: Retell the Chapter

What happened in this chapter? Write, draw, or tell your teacher the main events in order. Use the boxes below.

⭐ Great work! Check your success criteria above — can you tick each one?

Differentiation note for teacher: Phase 1 learners may draw or respond orally. Phase 2 learners are encouraged to write short sentences. Accept all response modes as valid.