Sentence Structure
This week in writing, the students will continue to look at sentence structure. They will learn how to correctly identify a simple, compound and complex sentence, as learn about key features in each. The students will also be learning how to appropriately select interesting conjunctions. This will ultimately help make their writing more interesting for the reader.
In reading, we will be learning about the cause and effect relationship and how to recognize and comprehend it in a text.
In reading, we will be learning about the cause and effect relationship and how to recognize and comprehend it in a text.
Social Justice
This term we are studying social justice with a unit that compares our own lives with those of children around the world. We will investigate issues such as food, hygiene, education and water. We will look at organisations that support children around the world and consider our own responsibility towards social justice. Studying advertising techniques used by marketers and making our own advertisements will form part of the unit.
01/06/2015
Our literacy focus for this week is setting up Readers’ and Writers’ Workshop. As a class, we will discuss the new standard of work we can expect now that they are in grade 6.
Literature Circles
Literature Circles are a great way to get students to think about what they are reading and to talk about their understanding with other students.
Every student chooses a book to read that they are interested in. Discussion about the books happens each Tuesday afternoon. A small group of students who have read the same book work together.
It is important that students read in their own time at home and/or at school and then STOP at the agreed point each week. The end of a chapter is a recommended place to stop.
After one week, students should have read approximately 1/3 of the book. After two weeks, they should be 2/3 of the way through and after three weeks, they should have finished their book.
Students are being taught different ways to view a book by performing different roles, such as the Illustrator Role or the Connector Role.
EVERYONE has to contribute to the discussion and has to complete a given task that shows they have thought about the book.
Thank you to those parents who are joining us each Tuesday at 3pm for our Literature Circles discussion.
Every student chooses a book to read that they are interested in. Discussion about the books happens each Tuesday afternoon. A small group of students who have read the same book work together.
It is important that students read in their own time at home and/or at school and then STOP at the agreed point each week. The end of a chapter is a recommended place to stop.
After one week, students should have read approximately 1/3 of the book. After two weeks, they should be 2/3 of the way through and after three weeks, they should have finished their book.
Students are being taught different ways to view a book by performing different roles, such as the Illustrator Role or the Connector Role.
EVERYONE has to contribute to the discussion and has to complete a given task that shows they have thought about the book.
Thank you to those parents who are joining us each Tuesday at 3pm for our Literature Circles discussion.
Soldier Boy
As part of our Anzac: 100 Years study, we are reading Soldier Boy as a serial and responding to the text in a variety of ways to demonstrate our understanding. These include answering comprehension questions, making time lines, family trees, Venn diagrams, writing letters and postcards, writing lists, sketching and making soundscapes.