Kūtai Fritters by Charlene Mataio

Kūtai Fritters by Charlene Mataio

Walt: make inferences from the information in the text and show or select appropriate supporting
evidence as proof that we understand the author’s purpose for writing.

Kūtai Fritters By Charlene Mataio

Directions: Read each passage and then respond to the questions.  Each question will ask you to make a
logical inference based on textual details.  Explain your answer by referencing the text.

1.  When is the best time to collect Kaimoana? High tide,  low tide, shallow water, king tide

How do you know this?      When there is a king tide. Because that’s why, last Saturday, we were always getting collect kutai.

2.  Describe Koro’s pōtae : black and white, fury and warm, floppy, 

What in the text supports your description? Warm and it was a sun hat.

3.  What relationship do Brianna and Maeva have? Are they, husband and wife or mother and son

or brother and sister.

Why do you feel this way?  husband and wife, I feel happy for them.

 4.  Why did Max gasp when they got to the beach? 

How do you know this?     Because when they went to the beach, the tide was so far out!

5.  Why did Koro call out ‘Taihoa wait for the rest of us’? Koro wanted to go swimming, Ko wanted 

to show the kids the crab. 

What in the text supports your description?     Because the rest of them wanted to have a rest. They stopped, dancing from one foot to the other.

6.  Why was Kalani scared? 

How do you know this?   But I was a bit scared of what might be hiding under the rocks. She was clinging tightly to the ledge were biggest.

7.  Why do we only take enough kaimoana? 

What in the text supports your description?  So we don’t be selfish and we can share the kaimoana.

 8.  Describe what Kūtai look like?  

Your evidence from the text.  It is like a country.

9.  What did Kalani see when he got to the beach? 

What in the text supports your idea?  He finds the kutai under the rock.

10. Why do you never turn your back on the sea?  

What in the text supports your idea?    Because it is my life without any sea. It for me swimming and water.