waikato1
Mrs Buchanan
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Kaitiaki - more about our birds
Walt: make connections by thinking about the big ideas in and between texts.
Instructions:
We have been reading and talking about threats to our native birds.
We will read these texts together and you will read them again on your own. Find and talk to a buddy about each text:
What are the big ideas in the text?
Can you make any connections between the texts?
How does it relate to our inquiry?
Then, complete your task.
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Task
Kaitiaki - watching over our birds
Walt: ask questions to gain information from a text.
Instructions:
Remember how we spotted some birds when we walked over to the creek?
What can you recall about the birds we saw?
Some birds in New Zealand face threats and are at risk. Read these two texts about New Zealand birds. What questions do you have? Be ready to discuss with others in your reading group.
Then, complete your task.
Kaitiaki - what is changing in our environment?
Walt: make connections across texts.
Video
Instructions:
Read the texts The long walk and What a disaster. Be ready to discuss with others in your reading group. If you want, you can listen to the audio of What a disaster too.
Then, complete your task.
Read the "extra information" from Te Ara if you would like:
Watch the video: Containers on Mt Maunganui Beach
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Text
Extra information
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Task
Te Taiao o Tāmaki
Walt: make connections across texts.
Video
Instructions:
Watch the video about Omaru Creek in Pt England Reserve.
Read the latest newsletter, Glen Innes Matters, from Watercare,
Read the text Kaitiaki of the stream and be ready to discuss with others in your reading group. If you want, you can listen to the audio of this article too.
Then, complete your task.
Read the "extra information" from Te Ara if you would like:
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Text
Task
Open presentation
Reading a recount
Walt: identify the features of a recount.
Text
Instructions:
First of all this week, you are going to finish your reading activity all about your reading group name.
Then, it is time to read your text and complete the task.
You can also read a story or two and complete a task to show your learning.
Teacher Notes
Task
Studyladder example of a recount: set task
Story to watch
About my group - Waikato
Walt: read for meaning and retell what we have read.
Instructions:
Welcome to your reading page for 2017!
This week you are going to be finding out about the name of your reading group, Waikato, as well as some other rivers in New Zealand.
You can also read a story or two and complete a task to show your learning.
Teacher Notes
Task
Research: Wikipedia
Research: Te Ara
Attribution:
Video: Manatu Taonga
