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Week 8
WALT: Identify and explain the effect of language features in a text
Instructions
1. Make a copy of the slides and put them in your reading folder
2. Unpack the poetry and investigate the authors use of language features
3. Choose a create activity and share it on your blog
Week 7
WALT: Analyze the common elements of poetry
Instructions
1. Make a copy of the slides and put them in your reading folder
2. Watch the video - what even is poetry?
3. Identify the key terms
4. Use your new knowledge to analyse the poems!
Week 6
WALT: understand new information by making connections to my life, texts I know and the world
Instructions
1. Make a copy of the slides and put them in your reading folder
2. Watch the videos - who is Selina Tusitala Marsh?
3. Make connections between texts, to your life and with the world.
4. Choose a create activity and share it on your blog
Week 4/5
WALT: summarise key ideas from a range of texts
Instructions
1. Make a copy of the slides and put them in your reading folder
2. Read a Rock and a hard place and identify the key ideas in the text
3. Read Brave Flower. Are there any similarities between the text?
4. Choose a create activity
Week 3
WALT: ask questions about a text to develop a deeper understanding of it
Instructions
1. Make a copy of the slides and put them in your reading folder
2. Read Mata I Pusi with the group and focus on asking questions to make sense of the text. Check out this site to help you
3. Read Afakasi Chameleon and complete the slides
4. Share your creation on your blog
Week 1/2
WALT: work collaboratively to make sense of a text
Instructions
1. Make a copy of the slides and put them in your reading folder
2. Read the excerpt of George’s Marvellous Medicine
3. Read the webpages and investigate Roald Dahl
