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Term 4
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: make connections between our prior knowledge and the text
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 Afakasi Chameleon. Are there any similarities between the text?
4. Choose a create activity
Week 3
WALT: make predictions about a text
Instructions
1. Make a copy of the slides and put them in your reading folder
2. Read the texts and make predictions about the stories and what will happen next after each page.
3. Complete the create activity and share it 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 Oh the Places You'll Go
3. Read the webpages and investigate Dr Seuss
