Reading
WALT Skim and scan to locate key inofrmation in the text.
List charactersitics of each planet in the solar system that make it unsuitable for human life.
This week, your reading sessions will take place within whanau classes. Use the reading activities below to help provide you with information for your "Postcards from the Planets " theme activity.
WALT Prepare ourselves to deliver our student lead conference.
This week, your reading sessions will mainly involve preparing for the studnet lead conferences or participating in the Break-Out Challenge.
If, at any point this week you are not involved in either of the activities above, you can do the reading comprehension task about planet Jupiter below.
WALT
Identify the setting / characters/ complication & resolution in a piece of narrative writing.
Instructions
Read the following two stories: "The Amazing Humans" / "Space Nuts at Light Speed"
Make your own copy of the narrative response sheet. Save it into your literacy folder. Make two duplicate slides. Complete the information for each narrative story.
Early finishers: Reading Box Green independent reading.
Probe and PM running record assessments will continue through week two. On Monday you will be introduced to the Reading Box Green reading kit and complete a short leveling test to help determine which colour use should begin at. While the teacher is assessing students on a 1:1 basis, you are to work independently on the box cards and use the marking keys to track your progress.
WALT:
- Use the Reading Box Green kit as an independent reading task.
- Self-monitor our work and accuracy.
Success Criteria
- I know what my reading coour level is for the reading box.
- I am selecting cards from the appropriate level and return cards to the correct place in the box.
- I am using the marking keys to mark my work
Forces Vocabulary
WALT: understand subject specific vocabulary to do with forces.
Click on the learn link to the vocab.
Once you have got 100% on the learn link click on the matching game to test your knowledge.
Term 1 Week 8
WALT: Make inferences from the text.
Success Criteria / Instructions
- I know the difference between explicit information and an inference.
- I can spot clues in the text to make an inference.
Term 1 Week 7
WALT: Make inferences from the text.
Set up my digital literacy 'book' and to know how to use it.
Success Criteria / Instructions
I know the difference between explicit information and an inference.
I can spot clues in the text to make an inference.
Term 1 Week 6
WALT: Use subheadings and keywords to locate key information.
Skim and scan to locate answers in the text.
Make inferences from the text.
Success Criteria / Instructions
Use the picture link to the right to open the story.
Use the book icon to access the follow-up reading comprehension activity.
Complete the task in your Literacy exercise book.
Term 1 Week 5
WALT: Locate key words in the text.
Use sentence context clues to determine the meaning of new words.
Make inferences from the text.
Success Criteria / Instructions
Use the picture link to the right to open the story.
Use the book icon to access the follow-up reading comprehension activity.
Complete the task in your Literacy exercise book.
Term 1 Week 4
WALT: retell part of the author's story in my own words.
Use clues in the text to answer comprehension questions.
Make inferences using evidence in the text.
Success Criteria / Instructions
Use the picture link to the right to open the story.
Use the book icon to access the follow-up reading comprehension activity.
Complete the task in your Literacy exercise book.
Term 1 Week 3
WALT: gain an understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi and the settlement process.
WALT: define vocabulary (words) that are unfamiliar to us.
Success Criteria / Instructions
Read the article below.
With a partner, create a new Google sheet.
Both partners must type 5 words each that are new vocabulary words to you.
Find another pair. Show your words to each other. Can you help explain the meaning of any of their chosen words to them?
Use an online dictionary or a physical dictionary to write the meaning of your chosen words.
Keeping Promises.pdfTerm 1 Week 2
WALT: regularly read longer texts for longer periods of time.
WALT: identify features of the text.
Succes Criteria: / Instructions
- Attend the workshop
- Listen to chapter one of "Canterbury Quake"
- Complete this follow-up activity: (Click on the book cover)
