Chapter Graphic : Garage Sale
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  Level: Year 4 and year 8
Approach: Independent  
Focus: Extracting information from text.
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Resources: Garage sale notice, question and recording booklet.

Questions / instructions:
This activity is called Garage Sale. I'm going to give you a copy of a notice that a class made for the children in their school.
Quickly skim read the notice to find answers to the questions in your book. You won't have to read every word on the notice to find your answers.
You will have five minutes to find your answers, so do as many as you can in that time.
I will tell you when the time is up. You can start as soon as I give you your books.

Give each student a copy of the 'Garage sale' notice and their answer book. Allow 5 minutes only.


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% responses
y4
y8
Who is selling cakes?  
Lucy
76
94
When is the garage sale and fair?  
Thursday
47
86
  
12.40pm (2)
38
71
12.40 (1)
10
17
How much are photos?  
$1
76
94
Who will be doing face painting?  
Mere's older sister (2)
61
92
 
Mere's sister (1)
6
3
Who made pet rocks?  
room 8
64
92
What is Thomas selling?  
lollipops
60
91
How many jigsaws are for sale?  
3
32
76
Who helped Sally?  
her mother/mum
40
89
What is money being raised for? 
class camp (2)
33
84
 
camp (1)
7
4
What do you get with a sausage?  
bread, onion, sauce (3)
33
76
  
2 of the above (2)
8
8
1 of the above (1)
3
4
 
Total score:
15 – 16
15
59
    
13 – 14
11
21
9 – 12
21
12
5 – 8
22
6
0 – 4
31
2
Commentary:
 Year 8 students enjoyed a high level of success on this task, with 59 percent getting either 15 or 16 out of 16. The corresponding figure for year 4 was 15 percent.
 
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