Year 5 & 6 READING
ONLINE RESOURCES
Read Theory
Read carefully and answer the questions.
Kiwi Kids News
Read an article that interests you. Copy and paste the Recall and Thinking questions onto a doc and answer each one.
Mrs Rowe's Reading Room
Choose a book, sit back and enjoy!
Newsela
Read an article that interests you. Remember to set it at a level that suits you.
Wonderopolis
Read an article that interests you. Then complete the Wonder Words and Test Your Knowledge Quizzes on the side.
Stories from Space
Listen to astronauts read stories from space.
Dogo News
Read an article that interests you. Complete a Current Events sheet about the article.
Mr Naussbaum
Choose a text to read and answer the questions. If you get one wrong, try to figure out how you could have found the correct answer before you move on.
Storyline Online
Listen to a story of your choice.
Storytime RNZ
Listen to a reading of some New Zealand picture books.
HOW PARENTS CAN HELP AT HOME WITH READING
Listen to your child read and read to them. If the text is challenging read it together.
Remember to encourage your child to use the following strategies:
What cues can I get from the sounds I can see and recognise?
Predict what is going to happen next.
Does the word I am thinking of make sense in the sentence?
Does the word I am thinking of look right?
Use the illustrations to help.
What punctuation cues can help me?
Re-read the difficult section and self-correct if possible.
If they still don’t know, it is OK to tell them the word. PLEASE DON’T MAKE IT STRESSFUL.
Ask questions as your child reads to you.
What does that mean?
What’s happening here?
Why do you think that happened?
What’s going to happen next?
Follow-up Activities
After reading...
Choose and complete a bookclub role that you think would be useful for what you have read.
Develop vocabulary – can you think of another word that means the same as……….?
Draw or write a flow chart to summarise part or all of the text/story.
Draw a character from the story and write personality traits around them.
Re-write the end of the story.
Create something in relation to the story e.g. Charlie and Chocolate Factory - a golden ticket.