Alien Penpal

Category: Letters
HoneycombHoneycomb Caves
SmurtheySmurthey City
PlanetPlanet Smurth
32 OoglyjooglyOoglyjoogly 4015

Dear John
My name is OogleyOogley and I come from your planet Earth's twin sistersister planet Smurth. We have our own solarsolar system,system, just like you, calledcalled the InkyInky Way.

Pink MonsterI am nine years old (althoughalthough I think our year is twice as long as your year). I have a youngeryounger sister called Wooglie.Wooglie. She has green curlycurly hair and one huge orangeorange eye in the middlemiddle of her forehead.forehead. I have pinkishpinkish purplepurple straight hair and my eye is green. We have a pet baby spratten.spratten. It has whiskerswhiskers and a littlelittle black nose alongalong with a long tail with scales, like your fish. Do you have any pets?

My best friend is called R2BC3. He is a robot.robot. He is much cleverercleverer than me and he helps me when I play Zee-Box games. My favouritefavourite thing to learn at school is Smurth language.language. I don't need to learn your language because R2BC3 has a language translatetranslator button.button. What isWhat's    your best learninglearning thing?

My favouritefavourite movingmoving and talkingtalking picturespictures are about aliensaliens like you guys on Earth. You are notaren't    as weird as those guys from Mars though. They look reallyreally mean!

Hope to hear all about your life on Earth soon, my new little alien friend.

Your new Planet Smurth friend
Oogley

 

Comprehension

Clarify these words: sister planet, solar system, language, translator.

Identify the features of a letter.

Retell the information you get from this letter about Oogley.

Compare and contrast things about alien life and things about your life.

Make inferences or give opinions about:

  • Why Planet Smurth's year is twice as long.
  • What the Inky Way might be like.
  • How life might be difficult for this alien.
  • What the usual habitat of the pet might be.
  • How a robot might make a good friend.
  • How learning might be easier for Oogley.

 

What question could you ask about this letter?

Visualise these uses of descriptive language: Honeycomb Caves; Inky Way; green curly hair with one orange eye; pinkish purple straight hair with a green eye; long whiskers and a little black nose, long tail with scales; Zee-Box; robot with a language translator button; moving and talking pictures. 

Make a connection with this letter.

Word Study

Verb endings: What happens when we add s, ed or ing to: move.

Other affixes: What happens when we add other prefixes and suffixes like y, er, ish to these words: curl, young, clever, pink.

Give the two words make up these compound words: honeycomb, although, forehead, along.

What two words are contracted here: what's, aren't.