Welcome to our reading page. This page has been set up so that students can have access to learning resources at home
Reading Information for students, parents and caregivers:
Thinking critically
In reading, critical thinking means thinking beyond a literal level – analysing meanings, responding to texts critically and personally, and reflecting on texts and on one’s own reading. Often, students will develop greater insights into a text on a second or subsequent reading.
Thinking critically may involve:
inferring why a character behaves as they do
expressing and justifying an opinion
evaluating the actions of the characters or the effectiveness of the text
identifying and comparing different aspects of a situation
considering why the author has used language in a particular way
noticing and commenting on connections between texts.
Inferencing
Inference is using facts, observations, and logic or reasoning to come to an assumption or conclusion. It is not stating the obvious (stating the obvious: that girl is wearing a fancy dress and carrying a bouquet of flowers. inference: that girl is a flower girl in a wedding). It is not prediction, though the two are definitely related. Remind your students that inference asks "What conclusions can you draw about what is happening now?" Prediction asks, "What will happen next?"
Find ways to show how they infer things all the time. Here are some fun suggestions for demonstrating this idea:
Come to school in a T-shirt from an event such as a charity run, concert, or theater performance. Ask the students what they can infer from your clothing choice.
Ask the principal or another teacher to come into your classroom at a time that looks unexpected to your students. Have a short, whispered conversation off to the side, during which you point at the fire alarm in your room and then look at your watch (or any other scenario that makes sense). After the administrator leaves, ask the students what they think the two of you discussed.
Have a student stand in front of the class and ask what the rest of the students could tell about him if they did not already know him, just by looking. For example, his eyesight is not very good (he is wearing glasses). He likes the Sea Hawks (he is wearing a Sea Hawks T-shirt). He walked in some mud on his way to school (there is some mud caked on his shoes).
Starfall - Here is a link to some reading activities . Try the reading story pages.
Reading daily is an important part of our programme. We read for enjoyment, researching for information, to share knowledge, to confirm or oppose ideas, to develop expression in our reading to others, and for understanding and comprehension.
Here a just a few ways you child can get reading mileage: Challenge them to a reading competition - see if they can read at least 1 book from the different genres in a week
eg: newspaper (article, advertisements), fiction book, non-fiction book, comic, internet article about a favourite animal, a picture book, a childrens magazine, an autobiography (a famous: NZer, sports star, motor racing driver, writer, artist, actor etc), read a story to a friend, brother or sister, a story written by a class mate. The list could be endless. Use your imagination there are outstanding Kiwi authors available at the town library.
Fun Brain: This game helps you to identify adjectives, nouns and verbs. You choose a whole a of different words and then it puts them into a story. It is great fun!
Welcome to our reading page. This page has been set up so that students can have access to learning resources at home
Reading Information for students, parents and caregivers:
Thinking critically
In reading, critical thinking means thinking beyond a literal level – analysing meanings, responding to texts critically and personally, and reflecting on texts and on one’s own reading. Often, students will develop greater insights into a text on a second or subsequent reading.
Thinking critically may involve:
inferring why a character behaves as they do
expressing and justifying an opinion
evaluating the actions of the characters or the effectiveness of the text
identifying and comparing different aspects of a situation
considering why the author has used language in a particular way
noticing and commenting on connections between texts.
Inferencing
Inference is using facts, observations, and logic or reasoning to come to an assumption or conclusion. It is not stating the obvious (stating the obvious: that girl is wearing a fancy dress and carrying a bouquet of flowers. inference: that girl is a flower girl in a wedding). It is not prediction, though the two are definitely related. Remind your students that inference asks "What conclusions can you draw about what is happening now?" Prediction asks, "What will happen next?"
Find ways to show how they infer things all the time. Here are some fun suggestions for demonstrating this idea:
Come to school in a T-shirt from an event such as a charity run, concert, or theater performance. Ask the students what they can infer from your clothing choice.
Ask the principal or another teacher to come into your classroom at a time that looks unexpected to your students. Have a short, whispered conversation off to the side, during which you point at the fire alarm in your room and then look at your watch (or any other scenario that makes sense). After the administrator leaves, ask the students what they think the two of you discussed.
Have a student stand in front of the class and ask what the rest of the students could tell about him if they did not already know him, just by looking. For example, his eyesight is not very good (he is wearing glasses). He likes the Sea Hawks (he is wearing a Sea Hawks T-shirt). He walked in some mud on his way to school (there is some mud caked on his shoes).
Term 3
Myths and Legends
Seven Stars of Matariki read by the author, Toni Rolleston-Cummins. You Tube
Tales from the mythologies of Creation, Maui and Aoraki You Tube
How Maui slowed the Sun - By Peter Gossage
Examples of animal legends
Keyboarding skills practice
Keyboarding Skills for Kids 2
Kiddle- Kid safe search engine - This is a safe way for your child to search for information
Studyladder- A great site for reading and word study skills
Author Study
NZ AuthorsAnthony Browne
Joy Cowley
Margaret Mahy
Charlie Small
Captain Underpants
Roald Dahl
Harry Potter
Shoo Rayner
Horrid Henry
The Tiara Club
fables and fairy tales
Dinosaurs
.Reading and Spelling/Word study Sites
Starfall - Here is a link to some reading activities . Try the reading story pages.
Reading daily is an important part of our programme. We read for enjoyment, researching for information, to share knowledge, to confirm or oppose ideas, to develop expression in our reading to others, and for understanding and comprehension.
Here a just a few ways you child can get reading mileage: Challenge them to a reading competition - see if they can read at least 1 book from the different genres in a week
eg: newspaper (article, advertisements), fiction book, non-fiction book, comic, internet article about a favourite animal, a picture book, a childrens magazine, an autobiography (a famous: NZer, sports star, motor racing driver, writer, artist, actor etc), read a story to a friend, brother or sister, a story written by a class mate. The list could be endless. Use your imagination there are outstanding Kiwi authors available at the town library.
Study ladder - reading/vocab Cloze activities, reading Comp, grammer, punctuation
Reading Eggspress
Cloze activities Do you need practice with filling the gaps in a paragraph? Have a go
Listening to Reading Sites:
Listening to Reading Room 5s Blog
National Geographic young explorer-Listen and learn (Click on 'more issues' for more magazines)
National Geographic for Kids
Stories online
Journals Online- Listen to Journal stories being read to you.
Reading and word work
Learn to Read
A great learning to read website. Have a go!
monkey match
Between the Lions
A great website that has games and stories that you can listen to and read.Fun Brain
Fun Brain: This game helps you to identify adjectives, nouns and verbs. You choose a whole a of different words and then it puts them into a story. It is great fun!BBC Reading skills
A great website for improving reading and writing skills such as spelling, punctuation, word study etc..Word study games
.I'm Reading
Interactive Reading Games
Spelling City - Games - This link is to some great spelling games, pick the one you want to play, try the Hang Mouse, its pretty neat.
noneSynonym sam
puzzles
Sea Turtles Explanation Writing