Extended Texts

As part of the Response to Text Portfolio, you need to have read AT LEAST TWO EXTENDED TEXTS. Extended texts just means more than 100 pages and includes things like novels, autobiographies, biographies, history text books, memoirs etc. etc.

If you're a bit stuck with what to read go see Kim in the library - she is bound to find you a book that you will love! Additionally, here is a list of great books that you can sink your teeth into.

Here is a link to the Pukeariki Digital Collections and you can get an online e-library card from here

Level Two texts

• Potiki by Patricia Grace - a story of a community trying desperately to save their land from criminal land developers

• Tu by Patricia Grace - the story of three brothers from Waitara who go off to fight in the Maori Battalion

• Baby No Eyes by Patricia Grace - A multi layered, intergenerational look at whanau relationships

• Bugs by Whiti Hereaka - about a girl trying to break through stereotypes

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - about a young girl beginning to recognise racism in the world around her

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Proof that a strong friendship really can withstand anything

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - A Jewish girl risks everything to learn how to read in Nazi Germany

Tips to help you out while you are reading

• When reading an extended text, it can be quite hard to remember everything that goes on. So, one way to do this is to keep a 3B1 and write down notes about things that are funny, confusing, sad, scary etc. It is good to put in some quotes to help you with your final write up.

• Use sticky notes to bookmark and point out important things so that they are easy to find at the end of your reading. This strategy also helps because it doesn't interrupt your reading too much.

• Reread your notes before you start reading the extended text again to remind yourself of what you read last.