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