Literacy+-+Reading



= Term 4: =

To start the term off we have finished a Rugby World Cup 2011 Newsheet which has 5 different highlights of the competition. This was great as New Zealand as just recently won the RWC. We also needed to include our own opinion on how it felt when we had won the RWC 2011! Below is my newsheet.

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= Term 3: =

At the moment we have been doing Novel Studies. This is where we got to choose our own novel. We needed to read it and then prepare a presentation including; Setting, Characters, Synopsis and our opinion. We also have to present this to our peers and they will assess us.

media type="custom" key="10731042" Currently we are studying the 9/11 disaster. We needed to create a news sheet that discussed what happened on that day but we needed to focus on the affects. We are doing this topic as the 10 year anniversary was recently. Once finished, we worked with a buddy to give constructive criticism. This was great. Below is my report on the 9/11 Disaster:

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At the moment we had another webquest. This webquest was based around writing our own adventure story. We were in groups of 6 and had various tasks leading up to the writing of story. I thought that this webquest was great. Our group worked really well together and in the end we had a completed webquest. Below is my groups's webquest presentation:

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This term, our Reading and Writing will be closely linked in together. Our writing is based around response writing. Response writing is where you respond to something you have seen, heard etc. So recently in Reading we have read articles about the Titanic. We have then wrote a response about it. Rosie and I were working together and below is our finished response:

media type="custom" key="10192293" = = = = = = = Term 2: = To start off Term 2 we are doing a Webquest. We have to read: The Boy In Striped Pajamas. We then have a Webquest to complete based on the book and the Holocaust. This sounds like a interesting Webquest that I am looking forward to exploring.



Below is a document showing what we had to do with the webquest and a follow up Holocaust activity:

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At the moment we have been learning about Long Finned Eels. We have had to write a document all about the eels. It was interesting to find out more about them as I had no clue about eels before this task. We have also had to choose one interesting fact that we found and make it look appealing to the eye. Here is my fact I found that was interesting.



On Tuesday 1st March, our class went up to Aratoi Museum in Masterton. We went to see an exhibition on The History of the Wairarapa and Wairarapa Moana. This exhibition tied in with our work on the Long Finned Eel. We have also had to make a presentation with some of the information and we learnt and found interesting. When I have made this presentation I will embed it here.

The first reading activity we did this year was on Armadillos and was non-fiction reading. This is my work I did.

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A few weeks ago we experienced our first Webquest for 2011. This particular webquest focused on FairyTales. We went into partners or groups. This is Ella and I's webquest focusing on our findings during the Webquest. Ella and I scored a 5P which is a college level. Ella and I were extremely pleased with this score!

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At the moment we have just finished our second Non- Fiction Reading Activity. This time we investigated Snakes. Here is my Snakes Activities.

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