Reading

Term 4

Buddy reading with students from M1.


Term 3
Our reading is going to be based around our inquiry this term and around Camp Bentzon.
Here are the Minions group presenting their play.




Term 2

This term we are continuing to focus on strategies that can help us to read and understand what we are reading. The strategies that we have looked further into are:
1. Prior knowledge
2. Predicting
3. Questioning
4. Inferring
L5 continue to amaze me with their enthusiasm for reading. They are enjoying their library time and are beginning to choose a variety of books. 

Please continue to read throughout the holidays.  L5 have really enjoyed their library visits this term and their reading has improved. It's been great to see students reading something different and moving away from their normal genre. L5 love being read to and we are reading some great novels. We started with Gangsta Granny and are now onto Billionaire Boy. Both are very funny and engaging books. 

During Week 8 I had the students use 10 words from an unknown piece of text.  From here they had to use these 10 words to create a story and predict what the text was about. The L5 students wrote so beautifully, we even ended up publishing them.  Have a look in their drive under reading to see their piece of writing! After reading the text we realised some of us were very close with our predictions! Here are some examples.


W.A.L.T   use  these words to  predict  what  the story is about.

Lighthouse
White cottage
Ships
Basket
Seagulls
Lunch
Napkin
Cat
Sea
Mustard sandwiches

There was a man who worked in a lighthouse . He and his wife lived in a white cottage, every day his wife  made him some lunch in a  basket with a napkin over the top.Then some seagulls came and ate some of the lunch and the lunch was hanging on a line over the sea and there were ships and their cat was on one of the ship's eating mustard sandwiches.

W.A.L.T use these words to predict what the story is about.
Lighthouse
White cottage
Ship
Basket
Lunch
Seagulls
Napkin
Cat
Sea
Mustard sandwich
The shining,bright lighthouse glimmered over the darkest of seas.
The incredible, bright, white cottage, is dusty and cold inside.
The biggest of ships waved and sailed over the vast seas with help from the lighthouse showing the way.
The pretty pink basket shone in the sun.
The old man's lunch was delicious, scrumptious and yummy!
Furious,grumpy,starving, seagulls were trapped in a metal cage.
A rather smelly napkin was huge and tall.
The cat had black and grey stripes.
The sea glittered,sparkled and shines everywhere!


The slimy,wrinkled,fat,old mustard sandwiches smelled of poop!


To begin Week 8 we will be focussing on the reading strategy "predicting". Predicting is when students use clues such as the title, illustrations, blurb, author and text type or what they have read so far to make smart guesses about what is coming up next in the text.  This strategy encourages students to become active readers.

Please continue to support your child in reading at home.  15-20 minutes per night is a great way to start. Library books are great to read with them or have them read to you. If your child is in the Bookworms group or the Minions group it is important they read their readers to you.  

There are also reading activities on https://www.studyladder.co.nz/
http://www.storynory.com/ is also a great audio website.

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