Reading

We made a criteria today for our Reading Aloud topic for reading. In a few weeks time we will be demonstrating our skills by reading exciting picture books to the Prep children. Here is our co-constructed criteria. Here are some photo's of us practicing our reading aloud in class today with our buddies. After we read we gave feed-forward - 2 stars and a wish - to help improve our reading aloud: **__Wednesday 22nd August__** This term we are learning all about Procedure Writing. We have read a lot of procedures, created our own criteria and today had a go at creating something from a procedure created by someone else. Today we followed instructions carefully and started creating these amazing "Face-Flick Books". Here are some action shots from today's session. We will finish them tomorrow :) If you have a great procedure we can try send it through! **__Thursday 3rd May__** This term we are learning all about Poetry and we have been reading a lot of different types of Poems and recording our findings on our discoveries charts. We will continue to share our learning about Poetry as this term goes by.
 * __Tuesday 6th November__ **

**__Wednesday 7th March__** Here is a new list of ideas for you to complete once you have finished your novel for the novel challenges. After you have finished your first 3 - the choice is yours - have a look through these 30 examples and choose which 1 you would like to complete .... This week we have been learning about autobiographies - we have had a massive selection of Autobiographies to skim read and we have been enjoying seeing what features the autobiographies have in them. We have made a lot of discoveries and we are excited about starting our own autobiographies soon.

Our shared novel for Term 1 is The Key To Rondo by Emily Rodda - we will share more information about it as the term goes by .....

We have been set a mission to complete different novel challenges throughout the year.

Our first Novel Challenge is:
Here is your list of activities for the first novel challenge -
 * To choose and read 7 //**__different__**// novels.

Our Second Novel challenge is:

 * To choose and read 7 //**__different__**// genres.
 * The genres are; contemporary, mystery, fantasy, science-fiction, adventure, historical and humourous.

Our Third novel challenge is:

 * To read 7 //**__different__**// authors
 * We can choose any authors as long as we read 7 //**__different__**// ones (e.g. C.S.Lewis, Roald Dahl, Emily Rodda,L.M.Montogomery, Judy Blume, Enid Blyton, Joanne Rowling).