Key into Evaluation

Key into Evaluation

Level Two Set T1

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganisation and inference.  Answers must come
from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.

Eeling

Our grandfather told us that rivers and streams around the country had once been so
full of eels they would line up to be caught.

“When we were kids”, he would say with a big grin “the creek was our local fish
shop.” His face then saddened. “Now, there’s pollution and big operations catching
our eels to sell overseas.”

Us kids headed up the road to an old wooden bridge that crossed a slow moving
creek. Dad said there were still a couple of big, mean, sharp-toothed eels hanging
around under it.

Willie got a sack and filled it with the stinking guts from the sheep Dad had killed
that afternoon.

He tied a long rope to the sack. Then he got the old kerosene lamp from the shed.
Mum said that she had learned to read by the light of that old lamp.  He then tied the
lamp to another long rope.

Luke and Tarzan’s job was to lower the sack over the side of the bridge and into the
water. Then they were to dangle the lamp above the surface. The idea was that the guts
would attract the eels.  The light would enable us to see any eels that came around the
bait. Willie, Reg, and I were on the bank. We had the job of spearing them.

And it worked.  That is until Tarzan got so excited he let go of the rope that the lamp
was tied to.

The two good sized eels we got were only half the size of the big eel that came around
just before the lamp was lost.  Because Willie had the idea to use it, we reckoned he
should go in and get it. None of us were keen to get in the water, but in the end we
all helped.  It was not in the best condition when we found it.

It wasn’t surprising that mum put an end to this method of eeling.

a.  Do you think the boys Grandfather had liked to eat eels?  Why do you say that?

Yes he liked it eat eels because they always went down and tried to catch some big
eels and they called it there local fish shop.

b.  What time do you think it was when they went eeling?  Why do you say that?

It was night time when they went feeling because they couldn’t see at night.

c.  Do you think Mum was upset?  Why do you say that?

She was upset because when they found it it was damaged and the lamp helped her
read at night.

d.  What do you think made Tarzan so excited that he dropped the rope?

Tarzan was to excited because there was a eel 4x as big as the ones that they had caught

Reaction question:

Do you think their method of fishing for eels was a good one? Yes and No

Why do you say that? Because they got the right equipment to catch the eels and No
because they damaged there mums lamp.

Create activity:

Create a procedural text:  How to fish for eels.

Show the procedure that the boys used to fish for eels.

Don’t forget to include the equipment needed and number the steps.