Tawa @ Ngatea Primary School

Plus: I have done most of my work this week. Plus: I have completed a milestone and almost finished another one. Minus: I don't know

The main character was Tana who was dark skin dark hair, dark eyes and a medium sized height and size and wore a big coat and had big heavy boots. He was fearless and didn't mind a challenge. He was interested in frogs because he thought they were extinct.

Vocab Buster W.A.L.T- Identify words you are unsure of in the text and create your own meaning based on clues in the text. Choose 2 words from your comic to investigate: Word 1:Monitor Definition in my own words: A device that is electric and can sense different objects. And Dictionary Definition: a device used for observing, checking, or keeping a continuous record of something. Other words with similar meaning ( Synonyms ): Scanner, Detector. Use in a sentence : : I had a baby monitor so I could listen to the beach. Word 2: Sludge Definition in my own words: When you stand in mud it makes a sludge like sound. And Dictionary Definition: thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process. Other words with similar meaning ( Synonyms ): Mud, Muck. Use in a sentence: As I was running at cross country the mud was like a sludge texture.

Summariser W.A.L.T-Summarise the main parts of the text using detail and including key words. Your job is to prepare a brief summary about your comic. Summary: Tana tries to get some valuable things from the mutts and he had to cross a wooden plank for a bridge he found a tool box to sell to buy some food for him and then he found frogs which were apparently extinct but he found some and he couldn’t save them and bring them back with him so he went to leave and the wood plank bridge was gone and the mutts captured him and took the stuff off him and asked him if he was hiding anything and he said no s and the mutts knew he was lying so them tied him to a car for a consequence.   Key Points from the comic: 1.Frogs 2.The Mutts 3.Money