DIAL ACTIVITIES

D=Deductive Questions

I=Inferential Questions

A=Authorial Questions

L=literal Questions

D = Deductive

Explain how you know two people are talking.

I = Inferential

What do you think they may be saying?

A = Authorial

Why do you think Colin Thompson has only shown one persons face?

L= Literal

How many people are carrying bags?

D = Deductive

Explain how you know that this is where books are written.

I = InferentialWhy do you think there are open drawers?

A = AuthorialWhy do you think Colin Thompson has drawn the desk?

L= LiteralWhat form of transport was on the desk?

How to live forever by Colin Thompson

In a quiet street of tall trees there is a library with a thousand rooms. On the shelves are copies of every book that has ever been written.

BUT one book was missing. Two hundred years ago someone hid its record card under the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet, and the book quietly vanished.

The book was called How to live forever.

D = Deductive

Explain how you can tell that this story may be a mystery.

I = InferentialWhy do you think the book went missing?

A = AuthorialWhy do you think Colin Thompson has made the word BUT bold?

L= LiteralWhen did the book go missing?

THE LITTLE BOY LOST by William Blake

'Father, father, where are you going?   O do not walk so fast!Speak, father, speak to your little boy,   Or else I shall be lost.'

The night was dark, no father was there,   The child was wet with dew;The mire was deep, and the child did weep,   And away the vapour flew.

D = Deductive

Explain how you can tell that this poem is spoken by a boy.

I = InferentialWhat do you think has happened to the father?

A = AuthorialWhy do you think William Blake repeated the words Father and Speak?

L= LiteralHow was the night described?