Writing: Writing this week focuses on Dads and Grandads and what makes them special. Students will complete a character description and a newspaper report.

Reading: Students should continue to focus one Establishing good reading habits. We recommend students read for at least 20 minutes per day. Reading out loud to a parent, carer, or older family member is preferred.

Student learning this week focuses on text to text connections. Sometimes when reading, readers are reminded of other things that they have read, other books by the same author, stories from a similar genre, or perhaps on the same topic. These types of connections are text-to-text connections. Readers gain insight during reading by thinking about how the information they are reading connects to other familiar text. “This character has the same problem that I read about in a story last year,” would be an example of a text-to-text connection.