Reading || The Big Game

The Big Game

By Sue Gibbison

School Journal Part 3, Number 1, 2007

Finding Information

1. List 7 things (conditions) the children did for Mum to say ‘yes’ to the rugby. 

• Folded the clothes, 
• hung up their school bags, 
• emptied out there lunch boxes,
• made there beds ,
• set the table 
• washed the dishes,
• They packed there clothes away,

2. What did Mum wish?

Mum wished that there was a big game more often.

3. Why did Mum pick them up early from school that day?

Mum picked them up from school early that day because she thought

the stadium would be packed.

4. Where were the children’s seats?

There seats were in the middle of the front row.

5. What feelings did the children feel?

The children were excited and they felt crazy about the game.

6. How do we know that the children were watching the players carefully?

They were studying each detail of the players.

7. Why did people text their friends? 

They were texting their friends to see where they were sitting.

8. How do we know there were lots of hungry people there?

Because in the book they said “five minutes… and they were still lining up for hot chips”.

9. Which words tell us the children watched the game all the time?
10. (Use speech marks).

“Our eyes were glued to the game from the beginning to the end”.

10.  How many points are scored for a try?

5 points are scored for a try.

11.  How many points are scored for a conversion?

2 points are scored in the conversion.

12.  What was the part, the children were really waiting for?

The kids were waiting to see Shane.