WRITING ABOUT READING

Mini Lesson:

• Look at the Writing About Reading prompts. Choose one you would like to work on today.

Main Activity

• Independent Reading of a fiction text for at least 30 minutes - use a book from home or find one on Epic! Books.

• Create a Reader's Notebook Entry about the book you read, using one of the Writing About Reading prompts.

• See Mrs Beissel's example here.

Then do one of these options:

• More independent reading

• Work on your reading goal

• Create a new Reader's Notebook Entry

EDITING

Mini Lesson:

• Watch the video above and think about how you would edit the example paragraph to make each part of it correct.

Main Activity:

• Choose one of your writing pieces from this week to re-read and edit...

OR

• Do a short free writing piece, then go back over it to edit...

Focus on: grammar, spelling, punctuation

Then do one of these options:

• Independent writing

• Work on your writing goal

• Create a Writer's Notebook Entry

DIVISION SPEED DRILL

• Open the Maths Worded Problems PDF - print it, or just view the questions on your screen.

• Choose 5 (or more!) worded problems to solve - copy them onto your page (or print them and stick them in) then solve them.

• Make sure you show your working out!

• Want more to do? Head over to Essential Assessment and play Sunset Maths!