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The Ants and the Grasshopper - The Sequel
Walt: find specific evidence in the text.
Instructions
1.Read the story carefully.
- Explain in your opinion to a partner how one of the characters would be feeling and use specific evidence to justify why.
- Follow the instructions on the slide of the presentation to share with your audience the emotions your chosen character feels and your recorded justification of them.
3.Post the presentation with your WALT and a sentence about what you have been learning to your blog. Add to the blog log.
Reading Detectives
Walt: use our inferening skills to find meaning in the text.
Instructions
1. Open the the doc: Cloze Reading - Number One
- Wait for your teachers instruction
- You will need to work on the doc with a partner so one person will need to share the doc with the other person so then you can work on it collaboratively.
- You and your partner will have the allocated time to fill in and reveal the hidden words based on words you know, that will make the story make sense.
2. Open the cloze reading task - On Frog Pond.
- Follow the same instructions as above.
Giant Giraffe
Walt: Gather and share information
Instructions
1. Read the story Giant Giraffe
2. Answer the multi choice questions about the text.
3. Blogger Activity:
- Create a google presentation or drawing that shares 3+ facts about giraffes using the text.
- Remember to change the backgrounds and titles.
- Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining what you have learned.
- Add to the blog log.
Text: Giant Giraffe
Protecting the Border
Walt: Find, retell and present key information
Work out the meaning of unknown words by using nearby words to help us.
Instructions
1. Open the Lucidchart- What is Biosecurity and add all the new things you now know about Biosecurity.
2. Read the text carefully to find the key information to retell.
3. During reading with the teacher write down new words you don't know or words discussed then add them to our Vocab Padlet with their definitions.
4. Make a copy the presentation - Border Security Video
5. Follow the instructions to answer the questions by finding and retelling the key information from the text.
6. Share your presentation on your blog with a couple of sentences explaining what you have been learning about, what you found most interesting and WALT.
Add to the blog log.
7. With a group make a video which could be shown at airports explaining Biosecurity and what things are of risk to NZ. Use the blue screen and iMovie to make your video look interesting and professional.
8. Add to your blog and blog log.
Text: Protecting the Border
Links
Activity: Border Security Video
Brainstorm: Lucidchart - What is Biosecurity?
Vocab Padlet: Fish n' Chips Vocab
Extra Information: What is biosecurity and what we are doing about it?
What is Biosecurity
Walt: Find and summarise main ideas.
Work out the meaning of unknown words by using nearby words to help us.
Instructions
1. Open the Lucidchart- What is Biosecurity and write down all the things you know about Biosecurity.
2. Read the text carefully to find the main ideas.
3. During reading with the teacher write down new words you don't know or words discussed then add them to our Vocab Padlet with their definitions.
4. Make a copy the presentation - Biosecurity
5. Follow the instructions to answer the questions by finding the main ideas in your book and summarising them.
6. Share your presentation on your blog with a couple of sentences explaining what you have been learning about, what you found most interesting and WALT.
Add to the blog log.
7. With a buddy record your radio interview. One person will ask the questions while the other person will answer the questions by reading their slid.
8. Add to your blog and blog log.
Text: What is Biosecurity?
Links
Activity: Biosecurity Radio Interview
Brainstorm: Lucidchart - What is Biosecurity?
Vocab Padlet: Fish n' Chips Vocab
It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time
Walt: Find and summarise information by identifying keywords and main ideas.
Read, research and use new words
Instructions
1. Read the text carefully to find the main ideas.
2. During reading with the teacher write down any new words you don't know then add them to our Vocab Padlet with their definition.
3. Make a copy the presentation - Going back in time.
4. Follow the instructions to go back in time and convince the farmers that bringing mustelids into New Zealand is a bad idea. You will need to be very persuasive and give them some good solutions to what to do with their rabbit problem.
5. Share your presentation on your blog with a couple of sentences explaining what you have been learning about, what you found most interesting and your WALT.
6. Add to the blog log.
Text: It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time
Links
Activity: Going back in time - Persuading
Vocab Padlet: Fish n' Chips: It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time
Extra text: Kiwi Conservation Club - Stoats
Timber
Walt: Identify and combine information in texts.
Instructions
1. Read the text carefully to gain new information.
2. Open up the presentation - Deforestation Poll Advice
3. Complete all the research you can to give you a good understanding of whether it is good or bad to cut down trees.
4. Then follow the instructions to create a DLO to give advice on a debate.
5. Share your DLO on your blog with a couple of sentences explaining what you have been learning about, what you found most interesting and your WALT.
6. Add to the blog log.
Text: Timber
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