DIAL ACTIVITIES D=Deductive Questions I=Inferential Questions A=Authorial Questions L=literal Questions

D = Deductive Explain how you know two people are talking. I = Inferential What do you think they may be saying? A = Authorial Why do you think Colin Thompson has only shown one persons face? L= Literal How many people are carrying bags?

D = Deductive Explain how you know that this is where books are written. I = Inferential Why do you think there are open drawers? A = Authorial Why do you think Colin Thompson has drawn the desk? L= Literal What form of transport was on the desk?

How to live forever by Colin Thompson In a quiet street of tall trees there is a library with a thousand rooms. On the shelves are copies of every book that has ever been written. BUT one book was missing. Two hundred years ago someone hid its record card under the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet, and the book quietly vanished. The book was called How to live forever. D = Deductive Explain how you can tell that this story may be a mystery. I = Inferential Why do you think the book went missing? A = Authorial Why do you think Colin Thompson has made the word BUT bold? L= Literal When did the book go missing?

THE LITTLE BOY LOST by William Blake 'Father, father, where are you going? O do not walk so fast! Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost.' The night was dark, no father was there, The child was wet with dew; The mire was deep, and the child did weep, And away the vapour flew. D = Deductive Explain how you can tell that this poem is spoken by a boy. I = Inferential What do you think has happened to the father? A = Authorial Why do you think William Blake repeated the words Father and Speak? L= Literal How was the night described?