9 Skills 2: Reading and writing

1 Read the story parts and put them in order.

Noises at night
a d
I went out of the door and stood up. I could hear
something behind the tent. I turned on my torch
and I walked round to the back of the tent.
I looked down and there was a little white
rabbit on the grass. I was very surprised.
In the middle of the night I woke up.
There was something noisy outside
the tent. I was frightened. My mum
and dad didn’t wake up. Maybe
they couldn’t hear anything.

b e
Last summer I went on a camping We arrived at the campsite when it was dark. It
holiday with my family in the was very cold and windy. I helped my mum put
mountains. The campsite was in a big up our tent and my dad made us some food.
field next to a farm and we were all When the tent was ready we had dinner and
alone there. There weren’t any other then we went to bed. We were very tired.
tents. How boring! There was no
one to play with. f
Our food was outside our tent
c and I was worried. Maybe it
I was very happy for the rest of the holiday was a bear and it wanted to eat
because I had a friend to play with. I called the our food. I got up and I opened
rabbit Lucky because I was lucky to find him. the door of the tent. I looked
At the end of the holiday we took Lucky home outside but I couldn’t see
with us and now he lives in our garden. anything.

2 Throw the dice and tick ✓ the story boxes.

1 2 3 4 5 6
2 years in the year at last on
When? last night
ago 2000 Christmas summer Sunday
an old
Where? New York a circus an airport a funfair a hotel
castle

How / feel? frightened excited bored interested surprised tired

Who /
a girl a pirate a boy a singer an actor a ghost
meet?

3 Use the story boxes to write the beginning of a story.

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