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Student Sample: Stage BL Progressing Towards Video 1  

This is a little, a short sentence, and it’s a short description that we were talking about before that fits with each of these animals.  So if you can read we’ll have turns:  we’ll have Meratu first, you can read; and then you try and match it with the animal.

Okay.  It has big wings.

Excellent.  Now where does that go Meratu?

Here.

Mm?  Do you think that’s got wings, the dolphin?

Mm…. Oh, here.

Meratu?  

It has a long…

…tail.

…tail.

Which of these animals has the long tail?  Some animal that hasn’t got the sentence.

Whale. This one.

Yes, put it there:  I think it goes there.  

It has fins and a tail.  

Good.

When…

Where…

Meratu, can you read the first page?

Lobster…

Lobster.

…it has a hard tail. Sh…

Shell.

Shell.  Shark, it has fins and a tail.  Whale, it has leg, big wings.  Cr… fins.

Can you help her Lazarus, do you think?

Jellyfish….

Jellyfish has…

Good.

Jellyfish, it has t, te, ten-, [0:02:46.3].

Very good, very close.  Tentacles.  Where are the tentacles on the jellyfish?  Tentacles:  these things are tentacles Lazarus.  These are tentacles, see, those things like that.  They look like legs.

It has a long b bod…

Body.

…body like a snake.

Crab, it has pinc-, res, pincres.

Pincers.

Pincers.

That’s a hard word, pincers.