Section outline

  • Year 7 Mountains - The Big Read!


    Explore/ Tūhura: we are exploring how people react to and interact with others through character studies


    Focus/ Aronga - I understand that:

    • A text may have more than one purpose.

    • A text may have more than one audience and interpretation

    • Language use (time, place, social contexts), helps us to analyse social roles, relationships, and/or power. 

    • Codes, conventions, and features of different types of texts have different effects 



    Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can talk and write about big ideas and characters in texts that I read by…

    • combining a range of strategies to decode and comprehend texts, using prior knowledge and information in the text to interpret ideas

    • identifying the world-view presented in a text and to consider the text’s possible impact on individuals or groups of people

    • regularly reading for pleasure, sometimes selecting texts based on my own preferences and interests, and sometimes exploring new authors and texts outside my comfort zone

    • participating in reading communities, discussing different kinds of texts, listening to others’ viewpoints, and making informed text recommendations for them.


    This week, we will be beginning our novel study. You must read at home, as well as in class time.
    See google classroom for activities.