Possum Magic

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Name: ___________________________Group Colour: __________________

Draw a line to match the words with the pictures.

vegemite

possum

lamington (cake)

Australian bush

ANZAC biscuits

pavlova (cake)

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Matching

minties (candy)

We use capital letters at the start of sentences and full

stops at the end of a sentence. Use capitals and full

stop to correct these sentences.

1. it was there, in the far north of australia, that they found a

vegemite sandwich

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2. grandma poss crossed her claws and crossed her feet

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3. hush breathed deeply and began to eat

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4. “a tail! a tail!” shouted both possums at once

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5. for there it was a brand new, visible tail

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Capitals Letters and

Full Stops

6 grandma poss made bush magic

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What is a rhyming word?

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Match the rhyming words by drawing a line to connect them.

pink fatthat seensmall shrinkbeen all

Now write some rhyming words to match these words: feet ___________ made ___________

blue ___________ you ___________

Write some rhyming words of your own:

__________ ____________ ___________ __________

____________ ___________ __________ ___________

____________ ___________ __________ ___________

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Rhyming

Words

What is a noun?

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Put the words from the box into the correct column:

person place thing

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possum Australia bush magic AdelaideHush koala Melbourne kangaroo sandwich

Grandma Poss book Sydney plate lamington

Nou

ns

1. What were the names of the two main characters in the

story?

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2. What was wrong with Hush?

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3. What made Hush’s legs appear?

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4. How did the possums get around Australia?

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5. Where did Grandma Poss look to find the magic she needed?

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6.What animal did Hush slide down?

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Comprehension

Questions

7.What could Hush be squashed by?

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8.What did Grandma Poss do to dingoes?

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9.What song did they dance to in Hobart? ______________________

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10. What did the possums eat on Hush’s birthday every year?

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Fill in the missing words from the story.

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Closed

Passage 1

Once upon a _________________, but not very _______________

ago, deep ___________ the Australian bush lived ______________

possums. Their names were ____________ and Grandma

_____________.

Use these words:

in Hush two Poss time long

On the map draw where the possums went and then write what

they ate.

They ate _______________________________________ in Adelaide.

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Mappi

ng

They ate ___________________ and _________________ in

Melbourne.

They ate ____________________ and ____________________ in

Sydney.

They ate ____________________________________________ in

Brisbane.

They ate a ____________________________________________ in

Darwin.

They ate a ____________________________________________ in Perth.

They ate a ____________________________________________ in

Hobart.

Fill in the missing words from the story.

All night _____________ Grandma Poss thought and_______________.

The next ________________, just before breakfast, she shouted, “It’s

something to do with______________. People food – not

________________ food. But I can’t ________________________what.

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Closed

Passage 2

We’ll just have to _____________ and find it.” So ______________ that

day, they left the __________ where they’d always been to find

what it was that would make Hush ____________________.

Use these words:

possum long visible food morning try

bush thought later remember

An acrostic poem is a poem where the first letters in each line spells out a word. You will have to write a word or a sentence using the first letter of each line.You are going to have a go at writing your own acrostic poem using the word ‘possum’.

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Acrostic Poem

P _______________________O ______________________S _______________________S _______________________U _______________________M ______________________

A T A B M O W S N A K E S B ED A Y A N R O M S Y D N E Y NE U A R R U B A K O O K K D RL S E N O C S C P T D K A I UA T Y E G K A N G A R O O N OI R B B L U E N K B V A K G BD A V I I B I H R N C L R O LE L I M S M I I C S I A O P EE I S C A C S S E I N R O V MR A I L I B U I I M W S H H AT N B E A G T I A V S D S S HM Z L N M N A P T U N U N C UU A E E I U O M M S B I A A SG C Z M L S E T I M E G E V SK A E T S P U M P K I N J H Y

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ADELAIDE ANZAC AUSTRALIANBISCUITS BLUE BRISBANE

BUSH DINGO EMUGRANMAPOSS GUMTREE HUSS

INVISIBLE KANGAROO KOALAKOOKABURRA LAMINGTON MAGICMELBOURNE MINTIES MORNAY

PAVLOVA POSSUM PUMPKINSANDWICH SCONES SHRINK

SMILE SNAKES STEAKSYDNEY VEGEMITE VISIBLE

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