Term 2 Week 1

Welcome to Term 2!

This week we will be reviewing the writing process.

I have noticed that many students do not fully understand the difference between revising and editing.

We will look at examples from published authors and you will practise revising and editing your own writing. This is a writing habit that we all need to develop. Please use a different colour when you are revising and editing so that is obvious to yourself and to your reader that you are making corrections. Our first practice task will be writing on the best/worst/most exciting holiday you have had. 

We are all visiting the temple on Wednesday 1st May. We will use the 5 Ws to recount this experience and organise our recount into paragraphs. As we will have the opportunity to do a few activities at the temple it will be easy for us to write about each activity in a new paragraph. Of course we will also practise revising and editing this piece of work too.

Our reading focus for the first 5 weeks of this term is on reading a text by a NZ author.

Everyone needs to choose their own fiction book from our library this week. Mrs Townsend will be teaching us how to locate these titles in our fist class library session this term. In week 5, you will have an assessment task to complete on paper. This will be a book review of your chosen text. It is important for you to be organised and reading this book through weeks 1-4. The book review assessment will be completed independently by you and you will need to have your book finished before week 5 so you can write an amazing review on it.

We will complete many short book review tasks over the next few weeks together so that you will be ready for this assessment.