Key into Evaluation

Key into Evaluation

Level One Set T3

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganisation and inference.  Answers must come from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.

Mum’s Miracle

What is a miracle?  A miracle is when something happens that you would never have thought could happen in a million years.  There seems to be no explanation for it either.

We lived in the country when I was growing up.  My brother wandered off late one afternoon and got lost in the hills behind our place.  We were desperate to find him. The family and the neighbours went out, looking and calling his name.  It was my mother that found him. She just walked around a tree and there he was, looking at a huge wild boar that was coming straight at him.

She can’t remember flying at the boar and kicking it under the jaw.  She knows it stopped in its tracks. She remembers tucking Jared under her arm and running back to safety with him.  Those who were close behind, saw the boar. They said it was one of the biggest they’d ever seen and they looked at my mother with great respect after that day.  She could never say how she did what she did or even how she thought of it. When one of the neighbours caught the boar later in the year, she took one look at it and fainted clean away.

Some people say that a butterfly coming out of a cocoon is a miracle, but I think that if you can explain it, or if it happens a lot, then it’s not.

a.  What was the miracle in this story?

They found Jared

b.  Why do you think they were desperate to find Jared?

So that it doesn't get dark and he gets more lost

c.  Why was the writer’s mother looked at with great respect?

d.  Why did my mother ‘faint clean away’ when she saw the boar?It was coming toward her and Jared

Reaction question:

Would you have done what Jared’s mother did?  Why do you say that?Yes because I would faint as well.

Create activity:

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganization and inference. Answers must come from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.This week the text for Key into evaluation was Mums Mricacle. This text is about a lady and kids and they have a mricale one day.