Reading

Week 7 Term 1

WALT: I can use visual language features to help me understand the ideas and information in the texts I read.

Success Criteria

S/C - identify when visual features have been used in a text

- explain how visual features relate to the content of the text

- identify how visual features add more information to a text

Task 1

Identify the purpose of the text that you have read using PIE (Persuade, Inform or Entertain). Take a picture of the first page of the article and add a voice recording on Seesaw explaining the purpose of this text.

Task 2

Take a photo or screenshot of the text and add it to Seesaw. Use the draw and/or voice record option to show the visual language features from the text. Explain why they are used and how they help us to better understand the text.

Task 3

  1. Use a venn diagram to explain the similarities and differences between stormwater and wastewater.
  2. Grab an ipad and take a walk around school looking at the drains that we have. Take a photo of each drain. Is there any rubbish in them? Where do you think the rubbish comes from?

Task 4

  1. In a small group choose either of the following images (the stormwater system on page 3, the LittaTrapTM on page 4, or the collection on page 5).
  2. Look closely at your chosen image and read the surrounding text.
  3. Next use Google slides to give an oral presentation to your group in which you :
    1.  explain what your image shows
    2.  explain what you learned from the image, what you learned from the text, and how the text and image worked together to convey information.
  4. Upload your google slide to Seesaw. Use the voice record option to show your answers to question 3.

Week 5&6 Term 1

WALT: I can use visual language features to help me understand the ideas and information in the texts I read.

Success Criteria

S/C - identify when visual features have been used in a text

- explain how visual features relate to the content of the text

- identify how visual features add more information to a text

Task 1

Identify the purpose of the text that you have read using PIE (Persuade, Inform or Entertain). Take a picture of the first page of the article and add a voice recording on Seesaw explaining the purpose of this text.

Task 3

Use the wordle to type in the Te Reo words, and their English translations, that are featured in the text.

You can use the Maori Dictionary and your teachers to translate some of the words into English if they are not in the text.

Task 2

Take a photo or screenshot of the text and add it to Seesaw. Use the draw and/or voice record option to show the visual language features from the text. Explain why they are used and how they help us to better understand the text.

WALT: understand the importance of a rāhui around the collection of kaimoana (seafood).

In Māori culture, a rāhui is a form of tapu restricting access to, or use of, an area or resource by unauthorised persons. With the passing of the 1996 Fisheries Act, a rāhui can also be imposed by the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries.

What does kaitiakitanga mean?

In your own words explain what a rāhui is.

Read the following news articles

News Hub NZ Herald

Who can impose a rāhui?

Why is a rāhui important to protecting the ocean?

Find or Draw a map on New Zealand. Identify where the current rāhui are.

In your own words why are rāhui important?

Share your work on Seesaw.



Week 4 Term 1

WALT: retell one part of a Maori myth or legend

  1. Read the myth and legend below.
  2. Identify the character traits of the Atua in the myth and create a word cloud. Post your word cloud to Seesaw. Include the WALT in your post.
  3. Read the other myths on the theme page and choose one to retell using readers theatre.
Māui and the giant fish.pdf

Maui and the giant fish

WALT: write a readers theatre to retell a Maori myth or legend

Week 2/3 Term 1

Treaty of Waitangi Journal.pdf

WALT to identify the differences between the two versions of the Treaty of Waitangi.

This article explains what the Treaty of Waitangi is, why it was needed, and what it says in both versions. You will need to read the text and complete the two activities attached.

Remember to post these to Seesaw.