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  • Kei ōu ringaringa te ao
    The world is yours

    Kia ora. This week we are going to continue working on our reading comprehension strategies.  I have chosen a text for you is an excerpt from a Roald Dahl book - you may have already read the whole book.  Our context is fads - and you may wonder what this story had to do with fads........   Roald Dahl's writing is popular with young readers - if they find a book like like, they devour many more books - but then, they discover different authors and books, and Dahl's books are replaced by new favourites.  This is similar to the life cycle of fads.

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

        • Read the text
        • Read the questions
        • Identify key words in the questions
        • Skim and scan the text for key words
        • Read around the key words to locate answers
        • Record answers using evidence from the text
        • Check that my answer answers the question asked

    Activities:

    1. Google Classroom (Reading Comprehension Activity)

    Homework:
    Read a book!



    EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING the reasons why an author writes and recognising the purposes and audiences that inform their decisions.
    • We are EXPLORING a range of reading strategies that help us make sense of our reading and investigating how using these strategies help us answer questions about our text.