I manage my reading by checking that I understand what I read.
I back up and re-read for understanding.
I make connections with the text by relating the ideas and emotions to things I have thought or felt.
I make a picture or mental image in my mind of what I am reading.
I ask questions before, during and after reading of myself and others.
I predict what will happen next by using information I have learnt or know from before.
I summarise the text making sure that my information is sequenced and in order.
I use the main idea and details to determine the importance of information that I read.
Throughout the text I look for the author's purpose.
I look for 'cause and effect' relationships.
I compare and contrast information I read in a text and with other texts.
I synthesise new information from the text. This means matching information in the text to my own ideas to make my ideas stronger and more solid.
Read each of the texts.
Discuss them with a friend and complete this slide for one of them. You can do this with your friend or by yourself. Make a copy first.
Complete your questions under the Prejudice section with a friend. Be ready to share them in your group.
Using the reader/writer app listen to Why Aren't There More Women Pilots.
Have you posted you DLOs on your blog?
Complete a word of the week of your choice.
This week is all about understanding Prejudice. In your key document answer the questions under the Prejudice section with a friend. Be ready to share them in your group.
Read Why Aren't There More Women Pilots.
Your DLOs are looking amazing...Be ready to share them at our next group session.
Complete a word of the week of your choice.
How is your DLO going? Share it with a friend from your group and ask for feedback.
On your blog post your completed Compare and Contrast Task.
Take some time to finish your DLO to a high standard and post it on your blog.
Choose your own three links to read through.
Read through one link with a partner from your group and talk about what stood out for you. What can you learn from Amelia Earharts story?
Choose a blue create task to complete. Make sure it is at a high standard.
Choose a new word of the week and post it on your blog.
Finish reading Amelia Earhart, visit the official website and read the article 'Will the search ever end?'
If you have finished you flower mosaic, photograph it and create a post about it on your blog.
Make a copy of the document in the blue create box and answer the comprehension questions.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Read Amelia Earhart and visit the official website.
Make a copy of the document and answer the comprehension questions.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Complete your character interview slide and video recording.
Choose a partner and practice interviewing the other person as if they were Ari.
Insert your video into your slide deck.
Post your finished slide on your blog.
Take some time to listen to the book being read to you by clicking here.
Complete your Word of the Week and post it on your blog.
Make a copy of the slide.
Choose a character in the story and answer the questions on the slide as if you were that character.
Read Chapter 8 and complete slide 12.
Complete your Word of the Week and post it on your blog.
Make sure you finish your DLO about being safe in NZ rivers or the sea.
Read the articles carefully and quote any information you use accurately. Link in the website you used if you directly quote a fact.
Read Chapter 7 and complete slide 11.
Complete your Word of the Week and post it on your blog.
Click on the links to read and research about water safety and survival.
Make a DLO about being safe in NZ rivers or the sea.
Read Chapter 6 and complete all slides up to and including slide 10.
Complete your Word of the Week.
Watch the video before coming to your group to see how to complete the 'Character Emotions' slide.
Make a copy of the slide and fill in the first slide. Save it in your reading folder.
Take some time to read up to chapter 5.
Complete slides 7 and 8 and continue on to slide 9.
Draw an image on google drawing or use storyboard creator to illustrate a moment in the story. Be creative.
This week only complete your word of the week and post it on your blog when you have finished your reading slides and caught up on your novel.
Catch up on the activities you have not yet completed. Post these on your blog.
Read Chapter 4
Complete slides 7 and 8.
This week only complete your word of the week and post it on your blog when you have finished your reading slides and caught up on your novel.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Read Chapter 3
Complete the questions on slide 6.
Complete the activity by finding the definitions to 'embarrassed' 'ashamed' and 'defeated'. Then find three words that mean the opposite to these.
Write a blog post sharing your words and definitions.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Read Chapter 2
Complete the questions on slide 5.
Complete the problem and solutions activity.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Read Chapter 1
Make a copy of the slide and save it in your reading folder.
Complete the questions on slide 4.
Complete the 'All about Ari' activity.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Look up 5 of the scientific words in your vocabulary table that you don't know the meaning to. Look these up in vocabulary.com.
Carefully read the poem Seasons and the factual article Seasons Reasons.
Sum up what you have learnt this term in a google slide or or book creator.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Have you posted your vocabulary learning on your blog? Check our Renz's post. https://hpsrenzm.blogspot.com/2020/06/vocabulary-book.html
Find your own text on Google about the seasons. Read it carefully and have it open on your chromebook to share when you come to your group session.
In Slide 4 of your seasons slide write down some clear facts that you have discovered from reading your own text. Put in the title of your text and link your title to your text.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Complete your vocabulary table for Seasons, Tides and Lunar Phases
Create a new blog post. Share your learning about scientific and descriptive vocabulary. Give and example from what you have learnt about in your vocabulary document.
Find your own text on Google about the seasons. Read it carefully and have it open on your chromebook to share when you come to your group session.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Finish reading Rainy Season and Seasons, Tides, and Lunar Phases
Complete slide 2
Understanding and building your vocabulary are important. Make a copy of the vocabulary document and follow the instructions to complete the table for just the text Rainy Season.
Complete your word of the week and post it on your blog.
Read Rainy Season and Seasons, Tides, and Lunar Phases
Make a copy of the 'Let's Research' Slide.
Complete slides 3 and 4