Literacy

AVAILL - The NeverEnding Story

12/1/2018

The Senior Area has been very fortunate to receive an additional AVAILLL kit from Altrusa Ashburton. We are very excited about the new titles in the kit.

We are finishing the year how we started, with another AVAILLL, and we voted for The NeverEnding Story.

In the programme students use a technique to "ReadWatch" a movie, where they watch a movie with it's accompanying subtitles. This is followed by activities orientated to build key skills of reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and spelling.

Compound and Found

In this activity you will ReadWatch a portion of the movie and every time you see a compound word you add it to your list. Make as long a list as possible because there is a team game that goes along with this and the longer your lest, the better for your team.

This is how the game is played. You will be on a secret team. I won't let you know which team you are in until we finish ReadWatch. When you find out, you will contribute the number of compound words you found to your team total by meeting with your team, totalling your possible team score and then submit it.

Before we get started we need to check that we are all clear what a compound word is. Turn to the person next to you and tell them what you think a compound word is and an example of one. We will share these back with the class.

Match the Meaning

In this activity the movie will be paused and you will need to find the word from the subtitle that matches the meaning in the box.

Synonym Search

In this activity the movie will be paused and you will find the word from the subtitle that is a synonym for the word in the box.

What's the Word?

In this activity there are two parts;
- the Word Hunt (where you make as many words as you can from the letters in a word from the subtitles)
- Mystery Word (where you find the word in the subtitles from the jumbled letters)

Year 5 House Leader Speeches and Year 6 Leaver's Memories

11/6/2018

Year 5s are writing their own speech to persuade others to vote for them to be a House Leader in 2019.

Use the AS ACEs to help you prove why you think you would be the best house leader for your house in 2019.

Use the planning sheets below to help you start to think about what you could include.

Handy Flow Chart - you could include a section for each of the AS ACE values.

Writing Sandwich to persuade - make sure you elaborate on each main point.

Writing Sandwich - use this to organise your ideas into a beginning, middle and end.

Year 6s are writing their memories of their time at Allenton School.
You could do an acrostic poem using the letters of the word ALLENTON to share some memories or you could use AS ACE. You could create an alphabet of memories of your time at Allenton School using the Alphabet Key. You could write a recount of your time at Allenton too. Remember to include different events and people from your entire time at Allenton, not just your Year 6 year.

Alphabet Thinkers Key

Handy Flow Chart

Writing Sandwich to recount

Prefixes

10/12/2018

Our first focus from the Pseudoword test is on Prefixes.

Open a copy of What is a Prefix? in your Drive to find out more about prefixes. Then complete your Prefixes Work Booklet.

Week 1 Prefix Focus - un

The prefix un- means not or without.
Examples of words with the prefix un- are;
unhappy
unbutton
unknown
uncommon
unfriendly
unzip
unleash
uncivilised
unnatural
unstoppable
undiscovered
ungrow
undressed
untie
unlace
unclicked
unmade
uninspired
unreal
unspeakable
unreadable
undestroyable
uncool
unpredictable
unwatered
undusty
unknotted
unimaginable
unstable

Week 3 Prefix focus - dis

The prefix dis- means not or the reverse of.
Examples of words with the prefix dis- are;
disadvantage
dismantle
disconnect
disappear
disagree
discourage
digrace
distrust
disable and disabled
disintegrate
dishonest
disorganised
disorder
discontinue
disowned

Week 4 Prefix focus - tele

The prefix tele- means far or some distance away.
Examples of words with the prefix tele- are;
telephone
teleport
television
telecom
teleportation
telecommunications
telekenesis
telegram
telepathically
telegraph
telescope
telemarketing

September/October Holiday Recount

10/12/2018

Room 2, your task it to create a recount of your recent holidays. Use your Talking Strip to help you with ideas and plan your writing.

Create your recount in your Teacher Check folder so Mrs Corcoran can help you if you get stuck.

When your recount has been edited you can add your pin onto one of the maps below (find the map with your name on it) and write a brief description of your holiday - you can add an appropriate picture to your pin.

When your recount is finished it can be added as a link on the map.

If you can't remember how to add your pin or get a bit stuck check out this video.

Logan, Max, Kirk, Lucas, Luan, Makai, Bailey, Josh and Hunter - use this map. Make sure you click on your layer before you add your pin.

Tony, Norton, Aadit, Jacob, Sylvie, Samantha, Vanessa, Tamara, Makenze and Charlotte - use this map. Make sure you click on your layer before you add your pin.

Olivia, Issy, Bella, Katelyn, Kezi and Molly - use this map. Make sure you click on your layer before you add your pin.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

9/10/2018

To celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori our focus for Literacy this week is on Maori Myths and Legends.

Choose a legend below to read and complete the activities. Make sure you put your copy in your Teacher Check folder - Mrs Corcoran will be checking that you have started your activity by the end of Monday.

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman
Maui and the Giant Fish
Paikea and the Whale
How Maui Slowed the Sun

Examples of Verbs

8/14/2018

Daily 5 Term 3 and 4

7/19/2018

In Room 2 we are learning to Self Manage our learning. Part of this is completing our Daily 5 for Literacy.

Make sure you fill in your checklist each day (create a new one here and put it in your named folder on the Drive to share to Mrs Corcoran) and get a buddy to check you off. Remember to have a person check you off you need to have worked with them or shared your work with them and you need to check of with a different buddy for each task.

Reading to Self

This could be Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R.), Read Theory, Epic Books, or Kiwi Kids News. You could read the newspaper or a book from the library corner. Sometimes Mrs Corcoran will set you a text to read before coming to work with her and this will be part of Reading to Self. These texts may be given to you or may be in the Things from Mrs Corcoran folder in your Drive.

Reading to a Partner

Buddy up with someone you know you can work positively with.

Share a page or two of the book that you are reading (this could be your own library book, a book from the class library or a book from somewhere else).
Be ready for your partner to ask you questions about the characters, the setting, the events of the story or what you think may happen next. Use the questions below to help with your discussion.

Listening to Reading

Using your headphones, head to Storyline Online, listen to a School Journal or Junior Journal story or article, listen to a Ready to Read story or log in to Sunshine Online.

Working with Words

There are two parts to Working with Words;
1. Complete your handwriting from the board, remembering to self mark.

2. Practicing your individual or class spelling words. Remember that your lists are in your notebook and you will be buddy tested on them.

You could;
- complete one of the spelling task cards from the box
- make a word search or make a crossword
- find your least and most valuable word by doing Spelling Addition
- write your words in morse code
- spell your words using the phonetic alphabet
- take on the Roll-A-Word challenge
- do a practice test (enter your words from your list) and then complete one of the activities on Spelling City
- ABC order
- finger spell your words using NZ sign. Spell your words to a buddy and see if they can spell your word. Ask your buddy which word they think you finger spelt the best and get them to video you on an iPad then flick it to Miss Lester so she can add it to your Drive
- Silly Sentences
- Words in a Word
- 30 second words - create a TV commercial using all the words from your list
- Secret Agent words

Working on Writing

This could be working on writing tasks (on your Drive or in your book) or doing some of your own writing.

Remember The Game of Awesome prompt that you can use from Monday.

Essential List Spelling

7/19/2018

You are all well on track with this! Create your list of ten words to practice for the next two weeks from the errors in your Essential List. When you are ready to test use these videos and the recording sheet from the blue folder on the wall.

July Holiday Recount

7/19/2018

Room 2, your task it to create a recount of your recent holidays. Use the Holiday Snapshots to help you with ideas and plan your writing. Create your recount in your Teacher Check folder so Mrs Corcoran can help you if you get stuck.

When your recount has been edited you can add your pin onto one of the maps below (find the map with your name on it) and write a brief description of your holiday - you can add an appropriate picture to your pin.

When your recount is finished it can be added as a link on the map.

If you can't remember how to add your pin or get a bit stuck check out this video.

Logan, Max, Kirk, Lucas, Luan, Makai, Bailey, Josh and Hunter - use this map. Make sure you click on your layer before you add your pin.

Tony, Norton, Aadit, Jacob, Sylvie, Samantha, Vanessa, Tamara, Makenze and Charlotte - use this map. Make sure you click on your layer before you add your pin.

Olivia, Issy, Bella, Katelyn, Kezi and Molly - use this map. Make sure you click on your layer before you add your pin.

Matariki

6/13/2018

Matariki is the Maori New Year which occurs in mid June each year. Matariki will begin on 15 June in 2018.

We have been doing lots of Literacy tasks related to Matariki including a retelling of this legend.