Reading Activity

Te Waoriki’s Writing activity

Book: Beans

Main ideas in the paragraphs.

P1.Every Saturday in the winter term he bike's into town to play rugby.

P2. On the way in, he doesn’t get a chance to look around him.

P3. But its great to go off to rugby.

P4.By the time he gets there he's really puffing.

P5.Sometimes it’s cold and muddy.

P6.Then after the game he strip's off and get's under the shower.

P7.He get's a drink from the dairy across the road.

P8.The going home is the best part of all.

P9.He sees all sorts of people in the gardens.

P10.Past all the gardens, about 2 kilometres from where he live's, there’s this fairly steep rise. 

P11.Just as he start's picking up speed on the down slope he get's this whiff of pigs.

P12. And as he goes whizzing down the stretch on his bike, he does this sniff up, a great big sniff.

P13.He's got this book in his liabry at school.

P14. It’s not far to his place after he's taken the straights.

P15.The lemmons on his tree are as sour as sour.

P16. They have an old lady living next to them.

By Te Waoriki.