Reading

Week 10

Legend of the Mooncake Festival

Watch the video and identify the characters, setting, problem and resolution for this Chinese myth.

download (2).pdf

Week 6 - Group 2

WALT use decoding strategies: Cross-check, Re-read and Chunk

Success Criteria

  • Cross check the words that I don't know by looking if the word looks right, sounds right and makes sense in the sentence.
  • Re-read the whole sentence when I am not sure about how to rwead a word
  • Chunk words into bits or parts that I know
  • Explain which strategies that I used to decode a word

Independent Activities

Red Reading Box

Pick a card from your colour and complete it in your literacy book. Once you have finished answering the questions you can use the answer card to mark. Post you marked work on Seesaw. Make sure that you put your cards back in the correct place.

Newslea

Click here to join the class.

You only need to join the class once.

Read the article, A marathon swim to fight pollution

Click on the button at the top of the page that has numbers like 810L. Select one of the numbers at the bottom of the pop up list. This will make the text easier to read.

Read the article, Paper or plastic

Click on the button at the top of the page that has numbers like 810L. Select one of the numbers at the bottom of the pop up list. This will make the text easier to read.


Copy of Idea City-SJ L2 Nov 2014.pdf

Idea Police

  1. Where would you find idea city in New Zealand?
  2. What caused Idea City to be built?
  3. Name four things that are now gone from the city?
  4. Why did people ride bicycles when watching a movie?
  5. What name did the volunteers give themselves?
  6. What would you find inside the fridge?
  7. Where would you find the cord to plug your smartphone into?
  8. Where could you go if you wanted to visit somewhere quieter?
  9. What are containers made from?
  10. What are the brightly painted containers compared to?
  11. Where did the children involved in Greening Spaces plant their flowers?
  12. What does temporary mean?
Copy of Idea City-SJ L2 Nov 2014.pdf

Poi

  1. Why was everyone looking at Maia?
  2. What are the children practicing for?
  3. What word does Maia wish she had not said?
  4. What does ‘stern’ mean?
  5. What does ‘haere atu’ mean?
  6. Why does Maia think kapahaka is boring?
  7. What does Maia need to do every lunchtime?
  8. How many girls are in each row?
  9. What is the first change that Maia suggests for the new poi?
  10. What is her second suggestion?
  11. What was the problem with Maia’s second idea?
  12. What was Maia’s solution to the problem?
  13. What similes are used to describe the blue and red poi?
  14. Why did Maya have to go on the stage?
Copy of Idea City-SJ L2 Nov 2014.pdf

Good as gold

Walt read with fluency and expression

Success Criteria

  • learn your parts of the play
  • practice any challenging words
  • use the punctuation to guide your reading
  • add expression when needed to your part


  1. After we have read the play as a group you will need to select which parts that you were going to take.
  2. You will need to practice the play as a group at throughout the week. It will also be important to collect any props that you will need for the play.

Theme Reading

WALT describe the process of designing and developing a water-monitoring prototype

Success Criteria

  • define what a prototype is
  • name the steps involved in developing a prototype
  • identify how solutions are found to problems

Watch the video before reading the text

  1. What do you think the whakataukī: “Kaua e kōrero mō te awa, kōrero ki te awa” means?
  2. What was the immediate challenge or problem that Grant was trying to address?
  3. What were the sub-challenges that the university students faced when designing the prototype.
  4. Why is the device called 'RiverWatch'? Do you think that this is a good name? Explain why.
  5. Look at the bottom of pages 26 and 27.
    1. Identify and describe each of the design stages in your own words.
    2. Is there a link between the illustrations and each design stage?
  6. Explain in your own words how the RiverWatch device met the identified need.
  7. To write a persuasive letter to the Whau Local Board about the importance of protecting the Whau River and our native fish.

Talking to the River

SJL3_2018-Talking to the River.pdf

Vocabulary Task

  1. Select four words from the text that you don't know the meaning of.
  2. Add the four words to the vocabulary chart and complete the other columns.
PM47 Word investigation chart.pdf

Graphic Organiser

  1. Use the graphic organiser as an example to show the main challange, sub-challenges and solutions. You can make this using a digital tool.
goal_reason.pdf

Week 5 - Group 2

WALT use decoding strategies: Cross-check, Re-read and Chunk

Success Criteria

  • Cross check the words that I don't know by looking if the word looks right, sounds right and makes sense in the sentence.
  • Re-read the whole sentence when I am not sure about how to rwead a word
  • Chunk words into bits or parts that I know
  • Explain which strategies that I used to decode a word

Independent Activities

Red Reading Box

Pick a card from your colour and complete it in your literacy book. Once you have finished answering the questions you can use the answer card to mark. Post you marked work on Seesaw. Make sure that you put your cards back in the correct place.

Newslea

Click here to join the class.

You only need to join the class once.

Read the article, A marathon swim to fight pollution

Click on the button at the top of the page that has numbers like 810L. Select one of the numbers at the bottom of the pop up list. This will make the text easier to read.

Read the article, Paper or plastic

Click on the button at the top of the page that has numbers like 810L. Select one of the numbers at the bottom of the pop up list. This will make the text easier to read.


How to wear a PET.

  1. What is another word for chilly?
  2. What does fashionable mean?
  3. What is an attachment?
  4. What does it mean when something matts together?
  5. What is yarn?
  6. Why is the cloth called ecofleece?
  7. What does mum's face look like when she sees her child wearing a plastic drink bottle?
  8. What is the special name for plastic that is used to make fizzy drink bottles?
  9. Why are the flakes thoroughly cleaned?
  10. What is melted plastic compared to?
  11. What happens to the plastic when it is forced through the tiny holes?
  12. Can the yarn be coloured? How do you know?
  13. How is the fleece described?
SC3080441418081315580.pdf
SC3080441418081316000.pdf

Smile

  1. What two words are used to make the word baylage?
  2. When is baylage made?
  3. What does wilted mean?
  4. Why is baylage made in warm weather only?
  5. Why is the rolled up grass called Swiss rolls?
  6. Why are the Swiss rolls wrapped in plastic?
  7. What tiny things live in the cut grass?
  8. What do they feed on?
  9. What is the name of the acid that they make?
  10. What does the acid do to the grass inside the plastic?
  11. What are the acid and grass compared to in the article?
  12. What does Miriam use to make the faces on the baylage?
  13. How are emojis and baylage?
  14. What happens when there is too much acid produced by the bacteria?
  15. Do you think baylage should be used by farmers? Explain your choice.

Oranges an experiment to prove that rubbish does not exist

  1. Why does the author think Dr Thinkmore is a show off?
  2. What is Dr Thinkmore more trying to prove?
  3. What did she do with the first peel?
  4. What did you do at the second peel?
  5. What did she do with the third peel?
  6. Name the two ways that wrapping paper be reused?
  7. What was the problem when they went into the playground to look for rubbish?
  8. What is compost?
  9. What Idea did they come up with for reusing plastic bottles?
  10. How did the Children's attitude to rubbish change after the experiment?
  11. Do you think Dr Thinkmore’s experiment was successful? Explain your choice.
SC3080441418081316100.pdf

Week 5 - Group 1

WALT use decoding strategies: Cross-check, Re-read and Chunk

Success Criteria

  • Cross check the words that I don't know by looking if the word looks right, sounds right and makes sense in the sentence.
  • Re-read the whole sentence when I am not sure about how to rwead a word
  • Chunk words into bits or parts that I know
  • Explain which strategies that I used to decode a word

Week 4 - Group 2

WALT use decoding strategies: Cross-check, Re-read and Chunk

Success Criteria

  • Cross check the words that I don't know by looking if the word looks right, sounds right and makes sense in the sentence.
  • Re-read the whole sentence when I am not sure about how to rwead a word
  • Chunk words into bits or parts that I know
  • Explain which strategies that I used to decode a word

How to Wear a PET

Edition: Connected No. 01

Year: 1999

Pages: 20 - 24

1) Read the story.

2) Answer the questions.

3) Imagine there was a machine that made your product. Draw a design and explain all the steps the materials would have to go through.


Week 4 - Group 1

WALT use decoding strategies: Cross-check, Re-read and Chunk

Success Criteria

  • Cross check the words that I don't know by looking if the word looks right, sounds right and makes sense in the sentence.
  • Re-read the whole sentence when I am not sure about how to rwead a word
  • Chunk words into bits or parts that I know
  • Explain which strategies that I used to decode a word

How to Wear a PET

Edition: Connected No. 01

Year: 1999

Pages: 20 - 24

1) Read the story.

2) Answer the questions.

3) Imagine there was a machine that made your product. Draw a design and explain all the steps the materials would have to go through.


Building a Wharenui

WALT to identify that technological outcomes are made of materials

Success Criteria

  • identify the materials used for a technological outcome
  • explain why some materials are not suitable for a technological outcome

Activity

  1. Read the text with a small group.
  2. Chose two of the three technological outcomes listed and identify all the materials that are used.
    1. Pencil case
    2. Shoe
    3. Chromebook
  3. Re-read the text and list the materials used to make a wharenui.
  4. How and why have the materials used to build wharenui changed overcome?
Build a Wharenui.pdf

Week 3 - Group 2

WALT use decoding strategies: Cross-check, Re-read and Chunk

Success Criteria

  • Cross check the words that I don't know by looking if the word looks right, sounds right and makes sense in the sentence.
  • Re-read the whole sentence when I am not sure about how to rwead a word
  • Chunk words into bits or parts that I know
  • Explain which strategies that I used to decode a word

Week 3 - Group 1

WALT use decoding strategies: Cross-check, Re-read and Chunk

Success Criteria

  • Cross check the words that I don't know by looking if the word looks right, sounds right and makes sense in the sentence.
  • Re-read the whole sentence when I am not sure about how to rwead a word
  • Chunk words into bits or parts that I know
  • Explain which strategies that I used to decode a word

Week 2 & 3 Term 3

WALT answer comprehension questions

  1. List the 2 reasons from the video about why plastic containers are used now instead of glass ones.
  2. What is the short name for the type of plastic used to make many plastic bottles?
  3. How much recycled plastic can be used to make a new plastic bottle?
  4. What temperature is the plastic material heated to?
  5. Why do the moulded preforms harden almost instantly?
  6. What liquid is used to cool the mould?
  7. How many bottles can the machine make in one hour?
  8. How many bottles can be made in 10 hours? 100 hours?

Activity

Watch the video all the way through the first time.

The second time you watch it you might need to pause the video to answer some of the questions.

For the vocabulary questions you will need to write the definition for the word and a synonym for it.

WALT clarify vocabulary

  1. What does automated mean?
  2. What is a mould?
  3. What does transform mean?
  4. What does the prefix pre mean
  5. What does malleable mean?

WALT create a flow chart showing the life cycle of a plastic bottle

Activity

1. Watch the video all the way through.

2. Create a flow chart from the information in the video. Show the journey of each bottle from the time they are made to where they end up.

Example of a flow chart for a plastic bottle

waterbottlefactpages.pdf

WALT create a poster that supports Meredith's campaign against straws.

Success Criteria

  • includes facts about the dangers of plastic straws
  • uses images to support facts
  • text is clear and easy to read
  • link to Meredith's petition page is included

Paper Fortune Teller