Reading Presentation

Today for reading we were doing a presentation about our history topic, our topic was about knight. In our DLO we talked about how to become a knight and some famous knight. After we were done we share our kahoot to our class to do. One interesting fact that I learnt was when the first crusade happen in 1096.    

A History of Protest in New Zealand

This week in reading, our group was reading a book about some of the biggest protest in New Zealand's. The book that we were reading was called Stand Up A History of Protest in New Zealand. As we were doing reciprocal reading, we made a list of vocabulary, summary, predictions and questions. Then we made a literacy weaving strip and using two words each from the book. I chose bread and soldiers because back then instead of fighting the soldiers they would hang out bread. Choosing my second option wasn't hard, I chose soldiers because they were taking down the house to make new roads

Summarising the Main Ideas

This week for current events we were asked to find a news item that interested us. After reading it we summarised it in our own words before making it more succinct in five 10 syllable sentences.

Article here:

Keywords from the title	Keywords from  sub- headings	New words I need to look up
Box, cheating, Exam	Exam, student cheating.	Officials, allegedly

Write down 20 important words from the text	Box, cheating, Exam, cardboard, indian, Students, looking, experiment, other, school, viral, 15, 20, minutes, onehour, removed, Bhagat Pre-University College, Twitter, apology, hearing
Chose the 6 most important words.	Box, cheating, exam, Bhagat Pre-University College, viral, school
Turn these words into sentences to summarise the text	People who go to Bhagat Pre-University College, in indian has to wear cardboard box in exam. It is because to keep them from cheating. So that they don’t look at the other people answer sheet. The picture of the student was posted on twitter and it went viral. They say that there were doing an experiment, because that saw other school did it.

10 syllable sentences:

In In-dia schools use card-board box-es. They use the box to keep them from cheating. So that they don’t look at others answers. The picture on Twitter and went viral. They saw other schools did it then copied.

Waltzing Matilda

This week for reading, we talked about the main idea about Waltzing Matilda. We also had to back up our main idea by writing down true details from the text. We then made a summary DLO about Waltzing Matilda. In this DLO we added 20 important words, which we then narrowed down to 6 most important words out of the 20. Using those 6 words, we had to make a summary about the poem, Waltzing Matilda. The poem was about a Swag man who stole a sheep from a farmer, which the farmer than called the troops to catch him. The Swag man was well aware that the troops was under his tail, until he escaped them and was never seen again.

Laika: Summary

LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks7giOpL4zg

Today we used our skimming and scanning skills to find the information and detail we needed to write a summary. Skimming like a low flying plane. You look over the information once, (this should take about about 3 - 5 seconds). Scanning is like a helicopter, you find what it is looking for and then hover over until the information has been found. To practice these skills we created a DLO that summaries Laika's journey in Sputnik 2.