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O – 2F - to identify/explain how information contributes to meaning as a whole

2B – to retrieve and record/identify key details from non-fiction text.

1) What is the text about? What is its purpose?

2) How does the title/introduction help the reader read on?
3) Does the layout help the reader? If so how?
4) What are the pictures for? What are their purpose?
5) Why is there a glossary in the text? What is it used for?
6) Dingoes are described as having carnassials. What are they?
7) Where is Australia can you find the largest population of dingo
8) In the 1880s the ‘Great Dingo Fence’ was constructed. Despite the fence, a handful of
dingoes still live within this barrier!
Why do you think there are still dingoes living in the south of Australia?

Now scroll down and check your answers. Any you are unsure of, please check with your teacher in
the morning zoom.
Answers

1) What is the text about? What is its purpose?

Dingoes. To find out information about them
2) How does the title/introduction help the reader read on?
Use of a rhetorical question to add interest and basic introduction with emotive statistic.
3) Does the layout help the reader? If so how?
Organised in paragraphs and clear sections so information is easy to find. Also in
colourful segments which are titled.
4) What are the pictures for? What are their purpose?
Pictures help to add interest and illustrate the meaning of the text
5) Why is there a glossary in the text? What is it used for?
The glossary gives meaning to the technical words. They are useful when you come
across unfamiliar words. They are also in alphabetical order.
6) Dingoes are described as having carnassials. What are they?
They are teeth found in carnivorous mammals
7) Where is Australia can you find the largest population of dingo
In the North of Australia and Fraser Island off the East coast
8) Why do you think there are still dingoes living in the south of Australia?
Because when the fence was erected there would still have been dingoes on the south
side. They will not all die as they reproduce.