Mrs Barker's Writing Group

Term 2: Report Writing-Matariki

Day 1:

WALT: Understand the importance of a report

Here is The Unique Echidna annotated by the tamariki and a list of the success criteria needed for a report.

Day 2:

WALT: plan our ideas

Our Matariki Slide with what we already know and our wonderings.


Day 3/4:

WALT: gather information

Here is our Matariki Information Slide with our findings.

Facts about Matariki websites:

Te Papa

Christchurchlibrary

KIDSBLOG

KIDSFRIENDLY

Day 5

WALT: listen and gather information

My own notes (slide) for Matariki-this will help me with my planning for apopo (tomorrow).


Day 6

WALT: plan our ideas

Here is our burger plan that help use to plan our ideas and here is Mrs Barker's modeled burger plan.

Day 7

WALT: hook the reader

Here is our shared Matariki Report. We are also starting to write our own Matariki Reports.

Day 8

WALT: write complete sentences.

We have continued to add to our shared piece of writing today and also continued writing our own reports. Today our focus is writing in full sentences.

Day 9:

WALT: use correct punctuation

Reminders:

Refer back to plan, write in full sentences, pretend the reader has never heard of Matariki, to use capital letter correctly

Our Assessment Sheet

Day 10

WALT: re read over our writing

Our focus is to re read over our mahi to check it makes sense.

Day 11

WALT: take notes about the Lunar New Year

Note Taking Slide

Back to Recount Writing

Today we brainstormed our success criteria and started planning our Maori Language Recount.