Learning Intention: We are learning to determine the most important points in factual and persuasive texts. When we read we have to decide what is important and what is just details. We can’t possibly remember EVERYTHING we read, so we need to sort the information in our brain. We need to find the Very Important Points,…
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Summarising, (or summarizing!) is a very important text to show that you can retell and comprehend what you have read, as well as determine the main idea. Click the images below to go to some online activities to help with summarising and finding the main idea. If you finish early, write a comment…
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Being able to determine what is important means you are good at summarising the main information. Today’s activities are about summarising. You will also see the American spelling: summarizing. We will be summarising our information when we write our report on a significant world site. Click here for your first activity! Click here for your…
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This week we are focusing on Determining Importance. Good readers are able to identify the parts of a text that are the most important. This can change depending on the type of text you are reading. To practice this skill we are going to visit the ‘Into the Book’ website. You will need the code…
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