Week 11
WALT - Make connections between texts.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I will know I can do this when can explain how one text relates to another using a visual organiser and dialogue.
Instructions
1) Read/watch the text set
2) Complete the Learning Evidence presentation including the
CREATE task - share presentation and news story on your blog.
3) Meet with your teacher in groups
TEXT SET
Text 1: Water Worn (Connected #2 2001)
Text 2: Coral Reef: Endangered Paradise (Connected #2, 2001)
Early Finishers: Choose an article that interests you and use this presentation to show your understanding.
Week 8&9
WALT - Summarise information in a text
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I will know I can do this when I find key words/information and make notes
Instructions
1) Read/watch the text set
2) Complete the Learning Evidence presentation including the
CREATE task - share presentation and news story on your blog.
3) Meet with your teacher in groups
TEXT SET
Text 1: What a Disaster!
Text 2: Oil Spill
Week 8
WALT - Summarise information in a text
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I will know I can do this when I find key words/information and make notes
Instructions
1) Read/watch the text set
2) Complete the Learning Evidence presentation including the
CREATE task - share presentation and news story on your blog.
3) Meet with your teacher in groups
TEXT SET
Text 1: What a Disaster!
Text 2: World's Water is Running Out
Text 3: Oil Spill
Week 7
WALT: Identify the similarities and differences across different texts
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I will know I can do this when I can explain the similarities and differences between two or three texts
Instructions:
1 - Read text set
2 - Meet with teacher when invited
3 - Complete Learning Evidence
Text Set
Text 1: The Whale Child
Text 2: A Serious Game
Text 3: A Piece of Paradise
Extra text: Rangi builds a boat
LEARNING EVIDENCE: Similarities & Differences
Open learning evidence presentation
Early Finishers: Choose an article that interests you and use this presentation to show your understanding.
Week 6xxx
WALT: Compare and contrast ideas from one text to another
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I will know I can do this when I can explain the similarities and differences between two texts
Instructions:
1 - Click here to read Easy as child's play
2 - Click here to read about Charlie and Maria
3 - Click here to watch the Save Water video
4 - Complete the Easy as child's play presentation on the right
Make sure you have answered ALL the questions then post
your work to your blog.
5 - Meet in your group with the teacher
Learning evidence here
Early Birds: completed your reading task for the week?
a. Visit this site and complete the 'Recall' and 'Thinking' questions posted alongside article(s) you read.
b. Post your answers in a presentation you create, name by using title(s) of articles you read.
c. Post blog hyperlink in turn in sheet for bonus points!
Week 3xxxx
WALT - I make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world.
Reading tasks this week
1 - Read through the 4 texts provided
2 - Complete the set tasks to complete your learning evidence
3 - Meet wth your teacher when called
4 - Complete activity
Text Set
Text 1: Interview with a glass of water
Connected 2002, click on image
Text 3: Water Use
Text 4: Water that's travelled around the world
Text 2: The Water Cycle
Connected 2002, click on image
Week 1 & 2
WALT - Make connections between our prior knowledge and examples within the text in order to understand more abstract ideas in the text.
The Three Kete - told in ENglish
Activity