2015 Year 3 NAPLAN- Joeys

A joey is

• a baby kangaroo

• a mother kangaroo

• a jelly bean

• a pouch

When a joey is born

• it is furry

• its eyes are open

• it is very small

• it has big ears

Being in a pouch keeps a joey

• small

• safe

• sleepy

• quiet

Joeys are compared to jelly beans because of their

• size

• colour

• smell

• stickiness

At about ten months old a joey

• does not live in the pouch anymore

• leaves its mother to live in a new place

• lives in the pouch when it needs to feel safe

• has become a fully grown kangaroo

What is this text mainly about?

• where kangaroos and joeys live

• when joeys learn to hop

• how much joeys eat and drink

• what joey's early lives are like