I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.

Name of Text: Underground Explorers

Definitions

Void: an empty space or vacuum. Fluorescent: able to give off visible light after being exposed to a source of heat, light, or other form of energy Vulnerable: able to be hurt or injured Interconnected: to connect or cause to be connected one to the other or others. Seldom: not often; rarely.

Example/Non Example	Is a void messy? Why or why not?	It's not messy because there is nothing in a void.
	Which color is the most fluorescent at night? Why?	Pitch black, because that is usually the colour when it is dark.
	Why are elderly people more vulnerable than children? Why?	Because it is harder for them to understand things and they don’t fight back.
	Which is more interconnected; a vine or a dandelion? Why?	A dandelion because people like making DANDELION CROWNS!!!
	Which is more seldom; the Olympics or an election in NZ? Why?	The olympics because it only happens in every 4 years and in an election it only happens every 2 years.

Word Associations	The plants in the garden are die during a frost	Vulnerable
	There were lots of different paths that joined each other	Interconnected
	I made a shot from halfway while facing backwards.	Seldom
	We are still exploring  outer space.	void
	I can find my key ring easily in the dark.	Fluorescent

Word Relationships How might each pair of words be connected?	Vulnerable/Fluorescent	A biker could be wearing a Fluorescent vest when they are biking to keep them safe so they aren’t vulnerable to others.
	Void/interconnected	It's like a cave when all of the rocks are interconnected with each other yet there is a big empty space ( A Void).

Extended Writing	Think of a time when you felt as though you were in a void or when you saw something that happens seldom. Write a paragraph about this.
	In England we went into a museum and we came to this big tunnel that we had to walk through to get to the end of the museum. We stepped into the bridge/tunnel and on the cylinder walls it was like a galaxy because they had stuff on the walk that make it look like we were in outer space and they had stars that glow up and everything; So it felt like we were in a void.