Pānui - Reading


In Tui Whānau, we read texts that help us to develop our reading skills at level 3 and 4 of the New Zealand Curriculum, including a range of decoding and comprehension strategies. We also select and read texts that we are interested in, such as novels, graphic novels, informative texts, poetry and picture books.

Much of our reading program links in with our Inquiry program. Check out here for some great create and learn tasks...

Monday's Reading Tasks

Learning Intentions

Students are learning to:

  • WALT how commas are used

  • WALT identify the way characters develop across time

  • WALT identify structure and language features of a script

Success Criteria

Students can:

  • explain and use commas to add information into a sentence, and for a list

  • describe how the main character has developed across a story

  • identify and use narrative mountain to explain the structure of a play, and identify key features of a script

W4 T3 Literacy Tasks - Tui Whanau 2021

Need help finding a thinking tool or graphic organiser? You are welcome to make a digital copy from here....

Literacy Critical Thinking Templates

Shakespeare

Payton, Robert, Callen, Jordy,

Maya, Luke S, Luke P

Austen

Paora, Summer, Daniel,

Ataahua, Sofia, Tristan

Chaucer

James, Starley, Regan,

Fenix, Brody, Seth, Max

Bronte

Liam, Scarlett, Aiden, Kael,

Bailee, Taine, Brooke

Videos that help explain:

Summarising Texts...

Understanding the Authors Purpose...

Evaluating the text...

Synthesizing Texts....

Making Inferences from the text...

Week 1: Digital landscapes

Learning Intentions

Students are learning to:

  • WALT use a variety of reading strategies to work out words, and find out what they mean

  • WALT collaboratively predict, clarify, question and summarise texts

  • WALT the difference between fact and opinion

  • WALT use apostrophe's accurately

Success Criteria

Students can:

  • identify and clarify unknown words using a variety of reading strategies and tools

  • work collaboratively in a group to predict, clarify, ask and answer questions, summarise

  • identify common facts and opinions on a topic, and share their own opinion on a topic

  • use apostrophes correctly

W1 T3 Literacy Tasks - Tui Whanau 2021

Week 7 - 10: matariki: Te whetu o te tau

W9 T2 Literacy Tasks - Tui Whanau 2021

Week 3 - 6: Voyages and Navigation - summarise, Authors purpose & audience, point-of-view, synthesise, compare and contrast

Learning Intentions

Students are learning to:

  • WALT summarise texts using keywords

  • WALT identify authors purpose and audience

  • WALT identify the point-of-view presented in the text

Success Criteria

Students can:

  • summarise a text using keywords

  • identify the purpose of a text and the intended audience

  • discuss whose point-of-view is presented in the text

Learning Intentions

Students are learning to:

  • WALT identify authors purpose and audience

  • WALT synthesise ideas across texts

Success Criteria

Students can:

  • identify the purpose of a text

  • identify the intended audience

  • compare and contrast ideas across texts

W4 T2 Literacy Rotations - Tui Whanau 2021
W5 T2 Literacy Tasks - Tui Whanau 2021

Learning Intentions

Students are learning to:

  • Identify our prior knowledge on how people travelled to New Zealand in early times

  • identify and list key vocabulary we might find on this tipic

Success Criteria

Students can:

  • Describe what they know about how different peoples voyaged and navigated their way to New Zealand

  • Identify keywords that will help us find out more about this subject

Activating Prior Knowledge:

  • In groups of 2-3, work collaboratively to record your thinking about how people were able to travel to New Zealand in earlier years.

Learn Activity 1:

  • Watch the video clip of how people came to New Zealand

Learn Activity 2:

  • Read the information from the Encyclopedia of New Zealand and NZ History about early navigation and encounters in NZ

Follow up task:

  • Reflect with your group and see if you can add anything to your prior knowledge table.

Reading Templates

Literacy Support

Comprehension

Library Books

Book Expectations

Creative Literacy

Studyladder

Scratch

Tinkercad

Sculpt GL

Storyboardthat

Canva

Epic!

National Geographic Kids