Teach-Reading-and-Writing-Issue-21

A unt Millie woke with a start. She lay for a moment staring at the ceiling. It was well after midnight and she wondered what had woken her. She could hear the rain lashing against the house, though it was not as bad as earlier. It was pitch dark outside. The window was ajar. She’d left it like that so that she could hear if the fox came back after her turkeys. Yes, that was what had woken her: three sharp barks had stolen into her dream… and then the doorbell had rung! Aunt Millie sat up and poked Uncle Fred to wake him from his slumbering. Based on Betsy Byers’ classic novel, The Midnight Fox , these model texts from Pie Corbett show how you can dig deeper into a story by retelling a scene from two different points of view Stormy RESCUE She put on her thin cotton night robe and made her way downstairs. Flicking on the porch light, she peered out. Who had rung the porch bell? At first, she couldn’t see much, but soon her eyes adjusted. To her surprise, it was Tom. As she told everyone later, he looked like a drowned turkey, standing on the porch and not moving. Hunched up against the weather, he was drenched, and his face was a mask. Flinging the door open and tut-tutting, she fetched Tom into the house. Well, if he hadn’t gone and let that baby fox out! “It’s alright,” she told him straight away, nudging Fred. Poor lad, he didn’t want us to be disappointed. But that fox would be miles away by now, so maybe it was all for the good. Aunt Millie went into the kitchen to fetch a dry towel. She should have known what he was up to earlier when she’d found him downstairs not in his pyjamas. What on earth was that boy up to, she thought to herself. She should have known that given a chance, he’d be out of the window onto the tree branch and mucking around outside. She shook her head. Boys will be boys, she thought. They just couldn’t resist a bit of midnight mischief. MODEL TEXT 1 42 | www.teachwire.net