Good readers are always asking questions as they read. Sometimes the question leads them to do more reading and research. Sometimes the question is answered in the text. Asking questions gets the reader thinking. The SKILL we need is to ask lots of different questions! Read the texts below about the animals then add…
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As you may know, Miss B adopted an Orangutan this year – Chikita! Click here to read about Chikita. Click this link – Chikita Update to read Chikita’s six month update. Chikita lives at Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre. Maybe open a new tab and search for the meaning of the word Rehabilitation? …
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Hello Birdies! Scroll down to your groups to see what your options are for this week! COCKATOOS AND GREY PARROTS: Choose one or more of these options Click here to read a book called “The Calming Manatee” Click the full screen button. Click here to read a book called “Stick’s Masterpiece”. Click here to read…
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This term 3J have been learning about RECYCLING. We have read some books about helping the environment and have set up our very own recycling station in our room. We have been writing texts that CONVINCE someone to recycle. Click on the wall below to write a sentence about WHY WE SHOULD RECYCLE. …
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Fantasy creatures feature in LOTS of stories we love reading, from Kindergarten picture books up to young adult fantasy / adventure novels. They are used by authors to help create movies in your mind of fantastical creatures with extraordinary features and powers. Good writers use descriptive phrases, noun groups, similes and other devices to describe…
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This term we are learning how to Synthesise when we read. Synthesising is when your thinking changes or evolves as you read. You can visit the website “Into the book” to complete an activity about Synthesising. Step 1: Go to the website and click ‘Kids’ (skip login) Step 2: In the Students Area click ‘Synthesising’. Click ‘Part…
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This term in science we will be learning all about BREAD. One of the most important ingredients in bread is flour. But what is flour, where does it come from and how is it made. Flour is made from grinding up different grains. The most commonly used grain for bread is WHEAT. Add to…
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Learning Intention: We are learning to determine what is important when we read and what is just interesting. We can’t possibly remember everything we read. Our brains are like a sieve, sifting what is important, what is just interesting and what we don’t need to remember at all. Image courtesy of www.webstaurantstore.com You can use a…
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Learning Intention: We are learning to identify the theme of the books we read. Here are some of the most common themes found in non fiction books. Image courtesy of primarypunch.blogspot.com.au Watch these two videos that discuss the common themes of literary…
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Every book we read has a theme, sometimes more than one! But what is the theme? Image courtesy of minds-in-bloom.com The ‘theme’ is the message that the author is trying to communicate with the reader. Authors use clues to show us the theme, so we need to be able to infer the underlying messages…
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Our focus strategy this week is Making Inferences. We remember that TEXT CLUES + BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE = INFERENCE Authors use inference to SHOW their readers more information about the setting ( eg: weather, mood) and the characters (opinions, emotions). Let’s practice the skill of inferring. 1. Click HERE to guess…
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Being a fluent reader means you read smoothly with expression and correct phrasing. You read at a suitable pace, paying attention to punctuation marks. In 5/6J – on average you should be reading between 100 and 130 words per minute aloud, and even more if you read silently. Multiply your age by 10, that…
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Our focus strategy at the moment is learning to form a synthesis. Synthesising is one of the hardest comprehension skills because to do it you need to ask questions, infer, make connections, use your background knowledge and summarise! Phew! Our reading groups tasks this week is to form a synthesis on our much-loved book…
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This term we have been looking at Information Reports. We have discovered that information reports feature facts grouped together into categories. Information reports feature a lot of technical language. Technical language is words and phrases specific to the topic that are not used very often in everyday conversation. This week in reading groups…
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This week we are looking at how animals adapt in the desert. We will be doing an experiment and also reading some facts about these desert survivors. When we read factual texts our brains are constantly coding what is important, what is interesting and what is not relevant. To work out what it is…
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