WALT: I can read a range of texts of compare and contrast the texts against each other. I can also identify the purpose of the texts.
Select 2 articles at a time. Watch, read and listen closely.
Complete a Venn diagram for 3 different sets of articles of your choice from our amazing set of Tongan Resources here on the left.
Post: one Venn diagram at a time. Your accompanying paragraph needs to explain what you think the purpose is of the texts you have worked to compare and contrast.
Copy only the slides you read please as reference for your Venn diagram blog post.
Have lots of fun learning through reading about our beautiful Tongan culture, it's people and language.
WALT: Finding synonyms of adjectives, nouns, and verbs in my text
Read the text 'Nobody Laughed' with a partner. Click here for the audio.
Watch this video for more ideas about synonyms.
Complete the slides and post it on your blog.
Watch this video and write 5 facts about what you learned from it using this template.
Early Finishes:
Read / Listen to Storyline Online and Complete a Book Review of that story.
Read an Article from Kiwi kids News and Complete a Book Review of that Article.
WALT: Find out what the main ideas of the story is.
Look through Learning Task Deck together
Each Sport has a reading article and learning task to do.
Work you way through the slides.
Post to your blog.
Go and find an article on Kiwikids News that is similar to the story you have just read and complete this slide deck.
Storyline Online for 10mins each time we have literacy.
Complete a Follow up task each day
WALT: Using texts to locate the main idea
Look through Learning Task Deck together
Each Sport has a reading article and learning task to do.
Work you way through the slides.
Post to your blog.
WALT: Using my personal experience, world and literacy knowledge to make meaning from texts.
Find here the text 'Rowing to the Olympics' by Alan Bagnall. Read this over with a partner. Discuss what the article is about.
Find here your second text, article about our very first rowers!
Work through this learning task, you can you work with a partner!
Please post your venn diagram with an explanation of it's own on your blog. Have fun learning about Olympians of NZ!