Topic: Variety of readers

Year 5 & 6

Level 2 (Purple Level 20)

Duration 1 week

Achievement objectives

Learning outcomes

Personal  Reading
Viewing

bulletMake confident use of cues and conventions of print
bulletAble to respond to meanings and ideas and able to describe the verbal and visual features

Processes

Learning outcomes

Thinking Critically (Reading and Writing)
Thinking Critically (Viewing and Presenting)

bulletAble to identify and express meanings in text using own knowledge
bulletAble to show awareness of how words and images can be used to make meaning

Resources

Instructional readers

bullet Island to island
bullet A quilt for Kiri
bullet Nana’s in the plum tree
bullet Grandma’s stick
bullet The Ghost and the Sausage

Internet sites

bullet  Put the skeleton back together again http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html
bullet Honey bee website http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/honey_bee.htm

Learning Experiences

1. Read ‘The Ghost and the Sausage’. Identify features of language that make the story interesting. Talk about main characters , problem and solution

Related reading activity Inspiration template ‘5 Ws’ what, where, who when, why

 

2. Read ‘Nana’s in the Plum tree’ talk about speech marks and when somebody is talking. Find the page that has a mistake on it with no speech marks

Related reading activity – Theatre reading Nana’s in the plum tree PowerPoint

 

3. Read ‘Grandma’s stick’ Identify features of language that make the story interesting. Talk about main characters.

Related reading activity - Inspiration template Characteristics of Grandma

 

4. Read ‘A quilt for Kiri’ talk about the themes of lmemories , the links between the quilt, Grandma's song, and other memories about Grandma, the cultural significance in the giving of the quilt. How the quilt is a tivaevae and how the patterns mean something
Related reading activity – design a tivaevae which has 3 objects that mean something important to them (use graphics from Word)

5. Read Island to island. Focus on arriving at school and leaving for home again, discuss maps and the key
Related reading activity - Inspiration template How do I get to school Flow chart.

Assessment

Children self assessment

Extra Activities

 

Non fiction box

 

Put the skeleton back together again website

 

Bookmarked bee information site

 

Match the Maori words to the English words Inspiration template

 

 

 

 

My Self Assessment         Name:________________________

 

I found out this new information:

 

 

Compulsory Tasks

J

JJ

I could have done better

I did quite well

I did my best work

What could I do next time to improve or what went wrong?

5 Ws, what, where, when, who, why

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nana’s in the plum tree PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

Characteristics of Grandma

 

 

 

 

 

 

Design a Tivaevae

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do I get to school flow chart

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optional Activities

Non fiction box

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put the skeleton back website

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read bookmarked bee information site

 

 

 

 

 

 

Match the Maori words to the English

 

 

 

 

 

 

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