Reading
Week 7 Term 3
Literal Stage 4
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, identify the section of the text that has the answer in it.
Read Idea City with the teacher.
(School Journal Level 2 November 2014 )
Activity after reading Idea City
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "Brushes and paint
rollers are used to apply the paint " on page 13. Post it on Seesaw.
Poem
a) Read the poem Road Not Taken by Robert Frost . Find it written here.
This poem is talking about not following or copying everyone else, doing your own thing. Copy and past the poem, read the poem out loud and post it on Seesaw.
Literal Stage 5
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, scan for key words in the question and in the text to locate the answer to a question.
Read the story Painting the Town
School Journal Level 3 November 2014
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "Artists are hard at work alongside the construction crews." on page 8. Post it on Seesaw.
Literal Stage 6
The answers are said in the text.
WALT answer literal questions by skimming and scanning. Looking for key words, topic sentences and subheadings.
A new story will be coming tomorrow.
Read the story Bright Fine Gold School Journal Level 3 May 2015
Activity after reading Bright Fine Gold:
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "Each Saturday, he led a parade of Chinese miners through the streets of Arrowtown. They all carried vegetables they had grown for sale. " on page 35. Post it on Seesaw.
Week 6 Term 3
Literal Stage 4
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, identify the section of the text that has the answer in it.
Read Pōhā: A Clever Way of Storing Food with the teacher. You can also listen to the story here.
(School Journal Level 2 September 2014 )
Activity after reading Pōhā: A Clever Way of Storing Food
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "First, they pull layers of bark off big, old tōtara trees. " on page 27. Post it on Seesaw.
Poem
a) Read the poem The Road Goes Ever On by JRR Tolkien. Find it written here.
The road in the poem is talking about your journey through life. What is the poem saying about your life? Copy and past the poem, read the poem out loud and post it on Seesaw.
Literal Stage 5
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, scan for key words in the question and in the text to locate the answer to a question.
Read the story Boy on a Bike
School Journal Level 3 May 2015
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "Mac and Craig finally reached the Ahipara camping ground shortly after ten that night.." on page 6. Post it on Seesaw.
Literal Stage 6
The answers are said in the text.
WALT answer literal questions by skimming and scanning. Looking for key words, topic sentences and subheadings.
Read the story Mahinga Kai Crusaders School Journal Level 3 May 2015
Activity after reading Bok Choy:
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "As a boy, Karl was taught what he knows by his whānau. They worked together over an open fire in the cooking shed behind the marae " on page 40. Post it on Seesaw.
Week 5 Term 3
Literal Stage 4
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, identify the section of the text that has the answer in it.
Read The Sons of Ma'afu with the teacher. You can also listen to the story here.
(School Journal Level 2 October 2015 )
Activity after reading The Sons of Ma'afu
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "the huge duck attacked" on page 13. Post it on Seesaw.
Poem
a) Read the poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas. Find it written here.
What does "do not go gentle into that good night" mean? Copy and past the poem, read the poem out loud and post it on Seesaw.
Literal Stage 5
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, scan for key words in the question and in the text to locate the answer to a question.
Read the story The Ski Trip
School Journal Level 3 September 2014
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "Anthony proudly handed his money over early." on page 47. Post it on Seesaw.
Literal Stage 6
The answers are said in the text.
WALT answer literal questions by skimming and scanning. Looking for key words, topic sentences and subheadings.
Read the story Bok Choy School Journal Level 3 May 2015
Activity after reading Bok Choy:
1) Make a copy of this google document.
Find the answers to the questions in the story and paste the words into the sheet. Post it on Seesaw.
2) Draw a picture of what is happening when it says, "Jacob and Mother walked back home through the Chinese village " on page 16. Post it on Seesaw.
Week 4 Term 3
Literal Stage 4
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, identify the section of the text that has the answer in it.
Read The Remarkable Reti with the teacher.
(School Journal Level 3 October 2015 )
Activity after reading The Remarkable Reti:
1) Make a google document and paste all the questions in it.
2) Look in the story to find these tricky words:
lure, hand-held line, resemble, kontiki, Mōhaka River, Ngāti Pāhauwera, reti, reti board, tikanga, waiata, mokopuna
For each word, copy and paste the sentence that they are in, into your google document. Highlight the word.
Use the sentences in the story to find out what the words mean. Also check the glossary in the story. If you need to you could also look up the words in the dictionary or in the Maori dictionary.
For each of these questions, copy and paste the part of the story where you found the answer, into your google document. Then answer the question.
2) What is a reti?
3) What is it used for?
4) How does a reti work?
5) Why can't everyone make and use reti?
6) Draw a picture of what is happening on p13 at line 15.
"At M ōhaka School, the staff and students regularly have fishing lessons. "
Poem
a) Read the poem Five Eyes by Walter De la Mare. Find it written here. You can also listen to the poem as a song here.
Draw what the cats are doing while Hans is asleep. Do you think Hans knows what the cats have been up to? Take a photo of your picture, paste the poem under it, read the poem out loud and post it on Seesaw.
Literal Stage 5
The answers are said in the text.
WALT reread the text, scan for key words in the question and in the text to locate the answer to a question.
Read the story Michel Mulipola: Superhero Secrets
School Journal Level 3 August 2016
Answer the questions in the quiz. When you answer the questions, copy and paste the part of the story where you found the answer, with your answer.
Literal Stage 6
The answers are said in the text.
WALT answer literal questions by skimming and scanning. Looking for key words, topic sentences and subheadings.
Read the story Up the Pipe School Journal Level 3 November 2014
Activity after reading Up The Pipe:
1) Make a google document and paste all the questions in it.
For each of these questions, copy and paste the part of the story where you found the answer, into your google document. Then answer the question.
a) What is sludge?
b) What does an environmental toxicologist do?
c) How much sludge does New Zealand produce?
d) What happens to most of the sludge?
e) What is the problem with sludge?
f) Why don't people use it more?
g) Where do the chemicals in sludge come from?
h) What does Dr. Louis want to find out?
i) What did they test the sludge for?
j) Why were they testing the sludge?
k) What did they find out when they tested the sludge?
L) What does Dr. Louis want people to do?
Week 3 Term 3
Task One
Read Balancing Act with the teacher.
(School Journal Level 3 June 2018 )
Activity after reading Balancing Act:
Look in the story to find these tricky words:
sculptures, distinctive, natural materials, physics, fascinated
found objects, centre of gravity, use calculus , prows
1) Use the sentences in the story to find out what the words mean. If you need to you could also look up the words in the dictionary.
2) What does a sculptor do?
3) How does Stavros get the materials for his art?
4) What is art? What is it's purpose?
5) Using materials found in the playground, create a sculpture of your own. (Don't pick anything off of the trees!) Take a picture that explain how you can create art with found objects. Post it on Seesaw. (If you want to go outside check with the teacher first)
Task 3 :
a) Read the poem maggie and milly and molly and may - by e.e. cummings. Find it written here.
E E Cummings is famous for writing poems that are a snapshot of a moment, like someone has taken a photograph.
Draw the moment the poet is writing about. Take a photo of your picture, paste the poem under it, and post it on Seesaw.
Read the story The Rules
School Journal Level 3 October 2015
Answer the questions in the quiz.
Week 1 Term 3
Everyone needs to take this test. Click on the title to do the test.
WALT - make inferences and extend our vocabulary.
Success criteria:
- Find the words that show you the author's message.
- Make supported predictions based on clues from the text.
- Change your mind when your predictions don't match the text.
- Find the meaning of new words.
Task One:
Complete the test.
Task Two:
Read Kutai with the teacher.
(School journal August 2012)
Activity after reading Kutai:
Look in the story to find these tricky words:
“According to”, “sustainable”, “harvesting”, “guardians”, “harvest”, “bracken”, “weavers”, “molluscs”, “bivalves”, “hinged”, “straining”, “plankton”, “green-lipped”, “sewage”, “chemicals”
1) Use the sentences in the story to find out what the words mean. If you need to you could also look up the words in the dictionary.
2) What does sustainable mean?
3) What problems do we face with the collecting of kutai today?
4) How did the early Maori make the kutai sustainable in the past?
5) How could we make the collecting of kutai sustainable now?
Task 3 :
a) Read the poem For Whom the Bell Tolls Find it written here.
This poem was written in 1624 and was not originally a poem. If you scroll down you can see the original language the poem was written in. This poem is often quoted by people.
Cut and paste the last three lines of the poem into a Google Doc What do they mean? Read here if you are not sure (scroll down to the second definition). Put the words are your explanation into Seesaw.
Task 4 : With the teacher
Read the story 'A Piece of Paradise
School Journal June 2012
Stories like this are written to teach us something. What was the author teaching us when they wrote this story?
Draw a picture of what was happening at p 46, last line, 'You've won.'
Also draw a picture of what was happening at p 47, line 2, 'washed away in the floods.'
Week 2 Term 3
Task One
Read The Best Tropical Beach Resort with the teacher.
(School journal August 2013)
Activity after reading The Best Tropical Beach Resort:
Look in the story to find these tricky words:
“arranged”, “sustainable”, “Turkish”, “tropical”, “shovel”, “dresser”, “inflatable”, “hammock”, “miniature”, “hibiscus”, “retreat”, “thatched”, “mosquitoes”, “gulped”, “record”
1) Use the sentences in the story to find out what the words mean. If you need to you could also look up the words in the dictionary.
2) What is the babysitter like?
3) What makes this story funny?
4) Draw a picture of what was happening at p 27, line 5 'landed on his nose.'
Task 3 :
a) Read the poem Where the Sidewalk Ends find it written here.
What is the place where the sidewalk ends like?
Cut and paste the poem into a Google Doc. and answer the question. Put it into Seesaw. Record yourself reading the poem.
Task 4 : With the teacher
Read the story 'Pest Fish'
School Journal Part 2 Number 4, 2005
Answer the questions in the quiz.
The last questions is
11) What do they hope the pond will be like? Draw a picture of how it will be (in your book), put some labels in. Take a photo and put it in your quizz.
You might want to draw that picture before starting the quiz.