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Awhi
A spirit released
To accept the receiver

Lines
Weather carved
Ignite its wisdom

Tattooed
With gouging finger marks
Tä moko





Pounamu
A gift possessed
Ancient, understood, held





A pendant
Has been given
Awhi

 

 






Ty King-Wall
The Correspondence School
Journal of Young People's Writing
1999
 
What is it?
    This task is about predicting what a poem could be describing by making inferences.   

You will read a poem in three parts, one part at a time.

 After reading each part:

•    in the left hand box, predict all the things you think the poem is describing.
•    in the right hand box, explain how the evidence in the text, and what you know, supports your predictions.

Part 1

I think this poem could be
describing any one of these things:
because:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2

Now I think this poem could be
describing one of these things:
because:

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

Part 3

Now I think this poem is
most likely describing:
because:
or


 

 

 

Pause, look, and think back: Something I'm still wondering about is:

 

 

To do this activity, you used the reading strategy of making inferences.

Circle any other
 reading strategy you used.
Describe when and how you used this reading strategy
for this poem:
Making connections between what I know and the text

Asking questions

Creating a picture in my head, or
visualising

Identifying the writer's purpose

Identifying the main idea

Summarising

Analysing and synthesising ideas and information

Evaluating ideas and information