Reading T2 W2

This week we are reading Kahawai, it is about in the future were earth was polluted.

Kahawai

WALT: use what we already know to make meaning within a story.

Task

Work on this Doc together with a buddy, or in a group of 3.

When do you think this story takes place? I.e. If in the future, how many years into the future?

• I think it took place in 3000s when there are more pollution and fewer peoples.

Is this the first time Āreta and Trish have taken the boat out fishing. Yes/ No

• No, it is not the first time that they have taken the boat out fishing.
• How do you know?
• because they probably have no other way of getting their food from fishing.  
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What do you think the author means by regular people when he says “...
back when regular people could still get petrol.”?

• I think it means when people back in the day when there was no pollution.

In this story, what exactly does the Forest refer to?

• It refers to like the tall white pillars

Where is this story set do you think?

• I think the story was set in the polluted beach

What are the clues that tell you this?

• It shows that they are on the beach because of what the pictures show in the book.

Why is Grandma Trish so excited to find a Kahawai again. What has happened to them?

• She is excited to find a kahawai again because the water is dirty and she might think that there is no more kahawai alive.

Explain why you think this.

• I think that’s why because the earth was polluted.

Why do Trish and Āreta let the Kahawai go back into the water?

• They let the kahawai go back in the water because in the future āreta there could be a school of kahawai.