Determining Importance

This fortnight we are learning to determine the most important details and events in the texts that we read.    DETERMINING IMPORTANCE is also referred to as FINDING THE MAIN IDEA.   Click here to practice this skill!    Still have time? Here’s something that explains it – especially for Factual Texts. Thanks Tim and Moby!…

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Reading Groups Week 5 – Inferring

This week our focus strategy is on MAKING INFERENCES. Firstly, CLICK HERE to read what making inferences means and test out your skills. Read the story about Pete and Patti and then click the flower (you’ll know what I mean when you visit this site). Next, you need to visit THIS SITE to play an…

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Reading Groups Week 3

This week you read with Miss B about the Australian Gold Rush.   The strategy that we are focusing on this week is ‘Asking Questions’. Today you will read a text on your studyladder account. It is a set task for you. Each page has a paragraph about The Gold Rush.   Words that may…

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Reading Groups Week 7: Synthesising

This week’s comprehension strategy is Synthesising. Can you be a synthesising hero?       SCHEMA is a fancy word for background knowledge. When we read, we constantly refer to our background knowledge and add new information. Before we read something we know a little, then as we read we add on to our knowledge…

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Reading Groups Week 6

This week we are learning to activate our background knowledge. This can also be called our prior knowledge. Our background knowledge is all the things we already know, things we have already learned, or seen, or experienced or read or heard about. When we learn or do something new, we activate the part of the…

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NAPLAN is upon us!

Yes it’s that time again, for all year 5 students in the country to complete the NAPLAN tests in literacy and numeracy. It seems a strange thing to partake in, as we rarely do silent, no helping, no talking tests at school. But it is a very important way to assess ALL the students in…

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Weather Word Clouds

HERE ARE SOME WORD CLOUDS THAT 5/6j MADE A FEW WEEKS AGO IN READING GROUPS! WE MADE THESE WORD CLOUDS AT WWW.ABCYA.COM. VISIT THAT SITE BY CLICKING THE LINK ON THE SIDE OF OUR BLOG!

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Morning Routine

This week our School Education Director came to visit our school and our classroom. While she was in our room we were having our morning routine. Every morning 5/6J participates in the morning routine. This involves reading our visual timetable of the day, which you can see on the window next to the screen. We…

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Word Clouds

Word Clouds are a great way to make a list of words look interesting. Here is a word cloud I made on the Gold Rush. I used the website ABCya! 5/6J: Here is a TASK for you: Go to the ABCya! website and make a word cloud on CHANGE DETECTIVES. Save your word cloud to…

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