Reading

= Term 2 Reading = Activating Prior Knowledge Making Connections - Text to Text - Text to Self - Text to World Visualising - Imaging what we read to help us understand more. Asking Questions - of what we read, making predictions.

= = = = = New Zealand Authors and Novel Study =

=== We have been identifying New Zealand Authors and what books they have written. We are currently reading a novel by Des Hunt called "The Tooth" set in the Hawkes Bay. I am challenging the class to read a selection of New Zealand novels and they will later on be undertaking some independent activities relating to the books they have read. ===

= Instructional Reading - Term 1 = __Our reading programme will be mainly integrated with our Inquiry and we will be looking at__
 * Making connections - between texts and our life and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions.
 * Asking Questions - we will be asking questions to challenge the text, the author and establish the accuracy of the text and state opinions.
 * Use visualization - create mental pictures and describe how they extend our understanding in text.
 * Drawing Inferences - predict, interpret and analyse text, "reading between the lines" to get extra meaning.
 * Determining Important Ideas - identify many important ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose and understand relationships in text as well as identify and analyse text structures.
 * Synthesizing Informationm - use knowledge from the text to combine with new ideas (our own and others) to come up with new thinking.