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New Zealand Birds Writing

Sione, Mere and Freya are helping prepare a New Zealand birds display for an art gallery. Read the information cards, then write a clear, interesting guide for visitors. Use facts from the cards and your own ideas.

Read the information cards

TŪĪ: A dark-feathered songbird with two white tufts beneath its throat. Tūī drink nectar from flowers and also eat fruit and insects. Their calls can include whistles, clicks and squeaks. KERERŪ: The New Zealand pigeon has a white breast and iridescent green-and-bronze feathers. It eats fruit and helps spread seeds when it flies between trees. KIWI: This flightless, nocturnal bird has shaggy feathers and nostrils near the tip of its long bill. It searches the forest floor for worms and insects. PĪWAKAWAKA: Also called the fantail, this small bird has a fan-shaped tail. It often flits after insects and may follow people through the bush.

Plan and notice

1.Which bird is flightless and searches the forest floor at night? Use one detail from its card to support your answer.

2.Choose the accurate fact about the tūī.

It has a fan-shaped tail and follows people.
It has white throat tufts and drinks nectar.
It is flightless and has nostrils at the end of its bill.
It has a white breast and spreads seeds.

3.Complete the sentence: The kererū helps spread when it flies between trees.

4.Match each bird to a feature or behaviour from the cards.

Tūī
Kererū
Kiwi
Pīwakawaka

Has nostrils near the tip of its bill
Calls with whistles, clicks and squeaks
Has a fan-shaped tail
Flies between trees and spreads seeds

5.Mere writes: “The kererū has colourful feathers. It eats fruit. It spreads seeds.” Rewrite these ideas as two connected sentences. Use a linking word such as also, because or for example.

6.Select TWO details that would best support a paragraph about how the kiwi is suited to finding food at night.

It is nocturnal.
Its nostrils are near the tip of its long bill.
It has a fan-shaped tail.
It has a white breast.

7.Write a topic sentence for a short information paragraph about one bird. Name the bird and introduce what makes it interesting.

Write for the gallery visitors

Choose one bird from the cards. Use the writing space to create an information paragraph. Include a topic sentence, at least two accurate facts, a linking word, and a concluding sentence. Add vivid but accurate words to help visitors picture the bird.

8.Write your information paragraph here. Check that your facts match the cards and that your ideas are connected.

9.Write a concluding sentence that sums up why the bird you chose is special. Do not simply repeat your topic sentence.

Draw one feature described in the information cards, such as a tūī’s throat tufts or a kererū’s feathers. Add a label that matches a fact in your paragraph.