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Term 4, 2023
Background knowledge is really important for helping you really understand what you read. Watch these videos about inventions and human endeavors to help you understand the texts you will be reading better.
The History of Lighthouses
The History of Lighthouses
Funny Kids
The history of lighting a fire.
Telgemeier
The discovery of Greenland by Erik the Red
Dahl
Communicating across difficult terrain.
JK Rowling
Trenchers: A history of dining technology.
Term 3
This term we are learning lots of ways to respond to the texts we read. We have used specific skills like Compare and Contrast and made book reports with buddies. Making Story Maps is our current challenge. Click here for some examples using pictures.
Story Map for The Gruffalo
Story Map for The Gruffalo
Both of these make you think about the story, the characters and the problems they had.
Both of these make you think about the story, the characters and the problems they had.
Click here to find a slide you can copy and add to your workbook.
Term 2
This term our Reading work is linked to our Social Science focus: New Zealand History. The workbooks are below, these are also found linked on our Inquiry page (Other Learning Areas tab)
Weeks 1-3
Weeks 1-3
Weeks 5-10
Weeks 5-10
Term 1
It is Sea-week in the first week of March so we are going to the Ocean in reading.
Group 1 Workbook.
Funny Kids: Workbook
Group 3 Workbook
Harry Potter: Workbook
Group 5 Workbook
Our Ocean work has been getting us thinking about how we can help our world. There are great ideas in the video resources on this website: Para Kore. Share with your class what you have tried.
Sometimes we all feel like someone else reading to us.
Click on the icon and find someone to read you a story - pictures included!
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