Manukau

Term4Week8

WALT Show our understanding of finding meaning from written text.

WALT Use General Strategies for Reading Comprehension such as:

  • Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing

  • Predicting

  • Identifying the Main Idea and Summarisation

  • Questioning

  • Making Inferences

  • Visualising

Click the link and choose a story to listen to: Listening post colour wheel

Task: Follow the Instructions.

  1. Watch the videos.

  2. Make a copy of the presentation.

  3. Click on the link to access reading activities.

  4. Complete all tasks.

  5. Check and edit your work.

  6. Share it with Mrs. Grady.

  7. Blog your work.

Reading Comprehension

Term3Week10

WALT Find information that are in the story to answer the questions.

WALT Show our understanding of text structures.

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Reading: Manukau Group


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Task: Follow the Instructions.

  1. Make a copy of the presentation.

  2. Look at the Front Cover of the Book and make Predictions.

  3. Read the story and identify the main ideas.

  4. Work on Vocabulary and Meaning.

  5. Complete all tasks.

  6. Check and edit your work.

  7. Share it with Mrs. Grady.

  8. Blog your work by Friday.

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Reading: Manukau Group


Click the link for...Extra Reading

Click the link and choose a story to listen to: Listening post colour wheel


Task: Follow the Instructions.

  1. Make a copy of the presentation.

  2. Look at the Front Cover of the Book and make Predictions.

  3. Read the story and identify the main ideas.

  4. Work on Vocabulary and Meaning.

  5. Complete all tasks.

  6. Check and edit your work.

  7. Share it with Mrs. Grady.

  8. Blog your work by Friday.

Term3Week9

WALT Show our understanding of text structures.

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Click the link and choose a story to listen to: Listening post colour wheel


Reading: WALT Show a developing understanding of text structures.

Task: Follow the Instructions.

  1. Make a copy of the presentation.

  2. Look at the Front Cover of the Book and make Predictions.

  3. Read the story and identify the main ideas.

  4. Work on Vocabulary and Meaning.

  5. Read the story by pages and answer the questions.

  6. Complete all tasks.

  7. Check and edit your work.

  8. Share it with Mrs. Grady.

  9. Blog your work at the end of the week.

Term3Week8

WALT Identify and Summarise the main ideas of the story.

Extra reading:

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Reading: WALT Identify and Summarise the main ideas of the story.

Task: Follow the instructions

  1. Make a copy of the presentation

  2. Read the story

  3. Do all tasks

  4. Check and edit your work

  5. Share it with Mrs. Grady

  6. Blog your work

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Reading: Tonga Language Week


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Term3Week7

WALT Retell the main events of the story to show our understanding.

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Reading: Non-fiction
Literacy: Reading, Writing and Language

Task: Follow the Instructions

  1. Make a copy of the presentation

  2. Read the story

  3. Complete all tasks

  4. Check and edit your work

  5. Share it with Mrs. Grady

  6. Blog your work

Term3Week6

WALT Retell Information in the order of the story.

Click the link - Story: Poi by Tira Johnson

Click the link - Story: Poi by Tira Johnson

Reading: Retelling and Comprehension

Task: Follow the Instructions

  1. Make a copy of the presentation

  2. Read the story

  3. Complete all tasks

  4. Check and edit your work

  5. Share it with Mrs. Grady

  6. Blog your work

Useful Reading about the Novel Coronavirus

Presentation and Follow up Activities

Reading: Follow up Activities

First personal to receive a life sentence without parole in NZ: Brenton Tarrant

Term3Week5

WALT Identify and summarise main ideas of a text.

Click on the link to read a text: Virus

Reading and Writing

What is a virus?

Task: Follow up Activities

  1. Watch the video and read the text

  2. Make a copy of the presentation

  3. . Work on each slide

  4. Check and edit your work

  5. Share it with Mrs Grady

Useful Reading Information about Novel Coronavirus

Click on the link to read a text: Virus

Reading and Writing

What is a virus?

Task: Follow up Activities

  1. Watch the video and read the text

  2. Make a copy of the presentation

  3. . Work on each slide

  4. Check and edit your work

  5. Share it with Mrs Grady

Term 1 Week 10 and holidays

Have read of the Kiwi kids news everyday.

3 Ready to Read AUDIO Books

Choose the book and listen to it.

You could also encourage your younger siblings to listen to stories.

Click on Story line to listen to a number of stories of your choice.

Choose a story.

Listen to it.

Who are the main characters in the story? What are they like?

Retell the story in your own words.

Summarise the story.

Do you think you could end the story differently?

Click on the button Story online and listen to stories of your choice.

Term 1 Week 9

Term1 Week 8 - WALT make connections to own knowledge and experiences to form and test hypotheses about what will happen.

SC- We can look for information in the text to answer our questions.

Read the text and find out why Wasps are pests?

T1 W7 -WALT make connections to own knowledge and experiences to form and test hypotheses about what will happen

T1 W7

Learning Intention

• Search for key words and ideas to help them visualise and keep track of events in the story.

• Make inferences about the feelings of the characters and why they behave as they do.

• Identify and discuss the author’s purpose.

• Monitor their reading, and when something is unclear, they take action to solve the problem, for example, by rereading a sentence or looking for clues close by.

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Follow up Task

Down load audio text and listen to it. Then read it using expression.

Make a list of characters and talk about their feelings as the story proceeds.

Term1 Week 6 - WALT make connections to our prior knowledge.

Ask questions about aspects that we are unsure of or want to know more about and attempt to find answers in the text.

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Follow up Task

Make a list of all the difficult words. Use them in sentences of your own and post them on your blog.

Read the text at least three times for fluency and phrasing.

Is there any word that you do not understand?


Term1 Week 4 and 5 - WALT make connections and say our Pepeha confidently.


WALT make connections to our prior knowledge and between the text and the visual features to identify (summarise) the components of a pepeha.

Ask questions about aspects that we are unsure of or want to know more about and attempt to find answers in the text.

SC - I can share instances about my experience and can identify the main components of a Pepeha.

Vocabulary

Possibly unfamiliar te reo Māori words and phrases, including: “Ko ... tōku ingoa”, “pepeha”, “waka”, “tūpuna”, “maunga”, “awa”, “roto”, “moana”, “iwi”, “marae”, “hapū”, “hui”, “kaumātua”, “mātua”, “Nō whea koe?”

• The use of macrons to denote long vowels in te reo Māori

• Other words and phrases that may be unfamiliar: “formal occasion”, “local environment”, “value”, “natural world”, “ancestors”, “family history”, “landmarks”, “waterways”, “traditional gathering place”, “relationships”, “community”

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Follow up Task

Use the framework provided in the above text to form your own Pepeha.

Think of the local rivers, mountains, and marae that are special to you. Make sure you have included these in your Pepeha.

T1W2 and 3.

We will continue to read this text as we could not finish reading the second part of the text last week.

Prior to meeting the teacher

Hard copies of the text are provided in your reading box. Down load the audio for the text and listen to it twice.

What about playing a simple song on Ukelele

How can we learn to do this?

Explore using your chrome books. Practice playing a simple chord.

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WALT notice and understand what composite words and suffixes are.

SC - I can look for words with different suffixes.

I can give examples of some composite words.

Language features

: • the composite word “Kiwileles”

• the suffixes in “skilful” and “joyful”

• the adverbs “perfectly”, “quickly”, “simply”, “slowly”, “quickly”

• the root word “music” in “musician” • words with letters or letter combinations that can have more than one sound (for example, “concert”, “confidence”; “musician”; “orchestra”, “chord”)

Follow up task

Make a list of composite words you know.

Find 20 words that have a 'ful' as a suffix



The following week, on the 6th of Feb is a very important day in the history of New Zealand.

Why is it so important?

Brainstorm what you know about 6th Feb.

Task: All students have post it notes and write what they know and paste them on the board.

Over Arching focus

WAL about Waitangi day. How do treaties work.

SC : I can recall facts about why Waitangi is an important event in history of New Zealand.

Explain how I need to contribute to a team.

WAL to use specific vocabulary to explain about Waitangi day.

SC: I can use specific words that relate to Waitagi Day to explain it's significance.


Follow up Activities

describes the events leading up to and following 6 February 1840.

Draw a timeline of events leading to Waitangi day.

Provides reasons for and against the original signing by Māori chiefs

Make a table comparing the articles of the Treaty in English with te reo Māori versions


Independent Tasks

Make a Poster to share your awareness about Waitangi with your Whanau