Week 3 -  Reading Goals

IALT: develop my reading comprehension skills

Recently I took an asTTle reading test. I read a number of texts and answered a range of questions to check my understanding and comprehension. The aim is to take a test at a level where I will make some errors so that I can identify what I need to work on to be a more successful reader.

I have looked at the results of my test and identified 3 goals for this term.

My reading goals are:

[1] Consistently read to understand the meaning of a text

[2] Make a conclusion or an assumption

[3] Know what different words mean

# 1 and 2 are about understanding the text, especially by thinking about the text more ‘deeply’.

# 3 is about developing my vocabulary and being able to use the information around a difficult word to make sense of it.

You can help me with [1] and [2] by asking me about the book I am reading at home;

• about the characters, setting, plot and resolution (fiction)
• Get me to explain why I believe the characters have acted in certain ways and how this influences the plot and outcome of the story
• Ask me to make a conclusion about different aspects of the story and encourage me to make assumptions about characters, events, moods and what might have happened in the text if the character [s] acted, behaved, made different choices.

You can help me with [3] by;

• encouraging me to explain in my own words what I think a word means
• helping me to identify parts of a word that might help explain its meaning (e.g., in submarine the ‘sub’ means under so that will help with making an educated guess about the meaning of the word
• encourage me to come up with words that have a similar meaning, or look in a thesaurus for words with similar (synonyms) and opposite meanings (antonyms).

Week 2 -  Writing Goal update

WHAT?

This week I am reflecting on one of my writing goals

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to:

* use a variety of sentence starters

This week I have been focusing on how to write a drop-in clause

SO WHAT?

Here is an example of a drop-in clause

Mr Forman is our teacher.	He loves his red car.
Mr Forman, who is our teacher, loves his red car.

Mr Forman is the subject of the sentence.

We change ‘He’ to ‘who’

We place commas around the clause we ‘drop-in’

MY EXAMPLES:

Here are two examples of a drop-in clause that I have created.

[1]

[2]

NOW WHAT?

I rate my understanding level at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My confidence level with using these types of sentences independently in my writing is

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

My writing Goals for term 2

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to;

* organise my writing into paragraphs

* use a variety of sentence starters

* use the correct language features of a narrative-dialogue

Use a variety of sentence starters

To help me with this goal I am using a' Sentence starter  menu '

It will help my writing to more interesting and to hook the reader in more

swimming

What?
We learned about swimming with Lee-ane

So What?
Lee-ane taught us some swimming activities like the caterpillar, waving and many more.
I think I have improved on my swimming skill and confidence.

Now What?
I would like to

Art

What

we did a sun art with Mrs Boston

So What

So we got a normal paper and draw a draft and then we used chalk on the black paper and then

my reading

This book I am currently  reading as part of my reading goal which is to be able to read for longer  periods of time and retain meaning.

My goal is also to read a variety of genre . This book is Fantasy . The next genre I am going to read is Mystery.

year 6 camp

what

Last week the year 6 students went to Waipara for 3 day camp.

So what

At the year 6 camp we did Absalling and Raft building and other more. Something that i enjoyed is Raft building and swimming in the lake. Something that challenged me and I gave it my best is Absalling and my camp highlight is doing caiking.

I am going to use the skills and dispositions I developed on camp to help me throughtout the year.