Literacy

EELS 1 Discuss What do you know about eels? What question do you have? 2 Watch and take notes Watch this and find out more. Think about: Habitat – where do they live?  Diet – what do they eat?  Enemies – what other animals eat or threaten them? Mentioned in video? Physical features – what does it look like? How have they adapted to their environment? What are the 5 most important things you have learnt? Record in your Inquiry book- compare with 2 other people and decide on what is the 5 most important things together by discussing. 3 Read, think and write What is main idea and how to we decide on what is the main idea? Click the main idea link and learn how to find the main idea then ... watch this. What is the main idea of the eels video? What does the author want us to know and understand?

Goals:  Consider:  the rights and wrongs of a bold decision  the theme of fairness when sharing a scarce and essential natural resource  infer meaning and consider more than one interpretation  has an open ending - decide what happens next. 1. Thirst text here  or use journal Read the text then ... 2. Thirst Book Club questions In a group of 3-4 work through these questions, discuss each one. Make sure everyone gets a turn to give their ideas. 3. Move on to activity sheet when finished discussing questions above.

The Gulls of Sulphur Bay Click here for audio file- listen and read Sulphur Bay, at the southern end of Lake Rotorua, is a wildlife reserve. Its hot springs make the area popular with many water birds, but the sulphur in the springs also causes some problems for them. This article describes how the gulls live in this unique environment. 1. Use these sentence starters to write about what you have read. Write the title of the article and the author in your Literacy book. Sulphur Bay is a good place/is not a good place for the gulls to live because ...  This area has/is ... The gulls can ... This means ... Overall, I think Sulphur Bay is a good place/is not a good place for gulls because ... What is something interesting that you found out about these gulls? Draw a gull.

Reading a boat Link above for text. Read it to yourself silently-  read the title and look at the photographs to predict where the story will go ... ... then read and   think about how signs are important in the story. Learning goals: To find out what happens when the characters’ interest in signs develops into an investigation of signs To form their own opinion of the importance of the signs the characters don’t agree on  To evaluate which signs are important in different places.