A Swim At Midnight Chapter 1
In the last week of the holidayholiday at Matakana,Matakana, Mr Gale said, “Who wants one more trip to Paekaraka?”Paekaraka?”
“Me!” shoutedshouted Tim.
“Me!” crycried Ricki.
“Me!” exclaimeded Mia.
“And me too!” laugheded Mrs Gale.
“Well, let uslet’s make this last one an eveningevening picnic,picnic, row over the river, climb the hill –”
“– And have tea on the beach at Paekaraka!” addedadded Mrs Gale.
“And a swim!” cried Ricki.
“And home over the hill,” shouted Tim.
“And row across the river againagain by moonlight,”moonlight,” finishedfinished Mia.
Photo by Faintsmoke, Wikimedia Images.They spent the next day smokesmoking fish to take home to their friends in Auckland.Auckland. Late in the afternoonafternoon they packedpacked the tea and their bathingbathing suits for the last picnic. They rowedrowed acrossacross the narrownarrow part of the riverriver near the wharf, and landedlanded in a small bay. There was a hill above the bay and a tiny, muddymuddy creek flowed down the hill and across the sand.
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Comprehension Clarify these words: exclaimed, finished, added, smoking fish, narrow, wharf, bay, creek, flowed. Retell what has happened in this first chapter. Make inferences and give opinions about:
What prediction can you make about what might happen next? What question could you ask about this chapter? Visualise these uses of descriptive language: row across the river by moonlight; they rowed across the narrow part of the river near the wharf; a hill above the bay; a tiny, muddy creek flowed down the hill and across the sand. Make a connection with this chapter. |
Word Study Verb endings: What happens when we add s, ed or ing to: cry, smoke. Other affixes: What happens when we add other prefixes and suffixes like y to these words: mud. What two words make up these compound words: again, moonlight, afternoon, across. What two words make up these contractions here: let's. |