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 I read half of the book from Kristy's Big Day by Gale Gulligan and Ann M, Martins.

So far Kristy's mum is getting married to someone else and they are trying to sell their house before the wedding, someone wanted to buy the house but they can't sell it yet because they have nowhere to stay.

I think that they should try to sell the house to someone else or tell them that they can't move houses  yet.

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I read the middle half of the book from Dawn and the Impossibe Three by Gale Gulligan and Ann M, Martins.

So far Dawn is babysitting the Barretts but she has already worked 4 days a week and missed a BSC meeting and hasn't noticed.

I think that Dawn should talk to Mrs. Barrett because she is babysitting too much for her and she is also missing BSC meetings.

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I read half the book of Dawn and the Impossible Three, by Gale Galligan, and Raina Telgemeier.

This story is about when dawn was babysitting her friends siblings and wanted her to be an official member of the Bsc so she wanted her friend to babysit with her and show her all of her babysitting skills,

I like Mallory because she really wants to be an official member of the Bsc so she helped Dawn babysit her little siblings.

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I read the whole book of Karen's Roller Skates by Ann M. Martin and Katy Farina.

This story is about when Karen was roller skating but she broke her arm and did some crazy things!

I like Karen because I think that she was very brave by going to the "Witches" house, and getting her autograph.

Pointless, Painful, Physical Education

I made a synthesis egg and a QAR template about a text called Pointless, Painful, Physical Education.

First I made Synthesis egg template where I wrote my prior knowlegde, my new information, and my new understandings. Prior knowledge is somthing that I already know, new information is something new that you learnt, and new understandings is what you unerstand now.

After that I answered questions and put them under one of the catagories called: right there, think and search, author and me, and on my own.

Right there is when you can just point to the answer. Think an search is when the answer is in the text but you need to think and search for it. Author and me is when the answer is not in the text, but you have to have use the information that the author has wrote to get the answer. On my own is when you can just go up to someone and ask them a question, and they will give an answer.

Skimming And Scanning

We used skimming and scanning to help us find information.

First we skimmed for the six keywords. Skimming is acting the an airplane and reading along the book.

Then we scanned for 4 facts in chronological order. Scanning is like a helicopter and stop to look at that specific paragraph or information that you need.

I enjoyed this activity because using skimming, scanning and chronology helps my work easier.

Table Mat

 I created a table mat on a book called New Zealand Film-makers specificly about Peter Jackson and used skimming and scaning to help me.

Skimming is when skip to find keywords. Scanning is when you read the text quickly and stop to read important information. Example: When you skim its like your an plane because when you skim you just read through the text without stoping. But an example of scanning your like a helicopter because helecopter can stop and hover while planes can't.

I found facts like In 1993 he made a film called Heavenly Creatures about an an usual murded that took place in the 1950’s, and Peter Jackson is one of the most famous film makers in the world.

Then I found some keywords and defined them like film and effects. Effects are things like sparkles or filters, film means to direct or make a movie.

I thought that Peter Jackson was interesting to learn about and some of the films he created and directed.

Reciprocal Reading

We used Reciprocal Reading to read two PDFs Where We Lived and What we invested.

First we decided who the leader would be. The leader is the person who assigns the roles to the group and introduces the text.

Next we decided who the predictor would be. The predictor scans the section of text that you are about to read and predictits what the next page will be about.

We then decided who the clarifier would be. The the clarifier identifies tricky words, pharses, or ideas and shares them with the group.

We decided who the questioner would be. The questioner asks questions about the text and encourages group members to elaborate on their answers and give evidence.

Lastly we decided who the summeriser would be. The summeriser thinks of the main ideas in the section we've just read.

I enjoyed being the leader because I got to introduce the new text and I believe I allocated roles to my group members well. We worked well as a team.

Reciprocal Reading

I learnt how to use Reciprocal Reading and keywords on 2 texts called What We Ate and What We Lost.

The first text is What We Ate.The six roles are leader, predictor, clarifier, questioner and summariser. The PDF is about what soldiers ate during the war. They ate: bully beef, jam, canned fruit and vegetables, lack of vitamin c, hard biscuits and water.

The most helpful role was the clarifier role because they identified tricky and unknown words that we don't understand through out the text.

We did reciprocal reading on a PDF called what we ate.

The Maori Pioneer Battaion

 We did reciprocal reading to help us read the text The Maori Pioneer Batallion.

First we decided a leader so they can assign everyone their job. there were 5 jobs.

Before everyone read the page the predictor had to predict what they think will happen.

Then once everyone read the page the clarifier had to identify any tricky words. Then everyone put the words on a key word list.

Next the questioner had to ask questions about the test and try to get an answer.

Lastly the summariser had to summarise the text by making it shorter.

I think the predictor was the hardest because you don't know what the next page will be about.

Keywords

All texts include a range of words to share information with the reader.

Keywords are words that unlock lots of information.

Kewords are used in a sentence to unlcok information in a specfic way. For example: Keyword - dodge- reminder - To avoid or not do something. Like not doing your chores.

LI- To expand vocabulary using keywords

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I read the whole book of Insects and creepy crawlies by Jinny Johnson.

This story is tells you lots of interesting facts about bugs and insects. I choose this book because I like to learn about bugs and insects..

I learnt interisting facts like, A male Rhinoceros beetle uses its horn to attake other males, and dung beetles roll animal poop into balls so the female can lay her eggs.

Making Connections

Making connections is a reading strategy that involves text to text, text to self, and text to world. These help you make connections.

Text to self is comparing a character or text to yourself.  An example of text to self is the highway rat steals food from the villagers because he can't go get his own, and I stole my dads food because he stole my food.

Text to text is comparing a text to another text. An example of text to text is when the duck tricked the rat so that she wouldn't get eaten and in the story little red riding hood the wolf pretended to be the grandma so that he could eat little red riding hood.

Text to world is comparing a text or character to someting that happens around the world. An example of text to world is The horse lets the rat ride him because they think they are partners, you can also see dance partners at ballet lessons. 

Making connections are an important way to understand a meaning or a similarity. Connecting texts to other things or people can help you understand similairities.

        

Duffy asembly

 Marc Duffy is a Duffy role model who shares his story about his rough past and then he turned his life around.

When Marc was in school he had trouble reading from left to right so all of the other kids started to bully him for not knowing how to read correctly. largest bunnings manager.

Then when Marc was asked to leave high school after six months, he got involved with the wrong crown and was sentenced to jail for four years.

In jail there was a teacher who taught Marc how to read and then he got his diploma and school certificate, so then he went to university to become a counseller. 

 He learnt the trade of a builder, made his own buisiness, then he got a job at Bunnings got married and now he manages the largest Bunnings store in New Zealand located in Hamilton.

Marc is a good Duffy role model and inspirator. He said that if you take the t off can't, it makes can.

Character Trait

 A character trait is when adjectives are used to describe a character's behavior or adittude.

The Horse is grateful for eating what he is given.

The Horse is kind for not stepping on the ant to take their leaf.

Using these adjectives it can be inferred that the Horse is a grateful and kind helper.

The Horse	is a	Helper	in the story	The Highway Rat.
A Characteristic of	The Horse	Is that he is	Grateful.
An example of this is	He eats all the unwanted food because he is grateful and takes what he is given.
The Horse	also shows	Kindness	when….
He doesn’t step on the ants because he is kind unlike the Rat.
To summarise the story of	The horse	is a	Kind, Grateful helper.

Fact Or Opinion

 I Inferred facts and opinions about the horse from the story The Highway Rat. Facts are true things and opinions are things you think about the character based on the fact.

First I had to listen to the story and the movie to get some facts about the horse or the duck. I chose the horse.

Then, I evaluated some of the facts about the horse from the story. Then I wrote some opinions about the Horse based on the fact.

Then once I finished my facts and opinions I had to write some adjectives to describe the character during that time period of the story. The adjectives supposed to describe the traits of the character and not their appearance.

I need to work more on my adjectives that describe the characters traits because some of my adjectives describes the appearance of the character.

  

The Highway Rat

A visualisation is when you use your imagination to visualise a story and draw pictures to go with your visualisation.

It is important to visualise because when you do it helps you understand the story better.

The story The Highway Rat is about a rat who rides a horse stealing everyone's food who passes by.

Then he eats a pink cupcake that he found and he loved it so much he went to go find more. 

When he couldn't find anymore pink cupcakes he tried to eat the duck but then the duck said he had a sister who had lots of yummy treats, but it was a lie and the Highway Rat got stuck in a cold dark cave.

Then the rat found his way out and left his stealing way behind and found a job at a cake shop.

My visualisation is different to my partners because she spent time drawing backgrounds but I didn't.

This is important so you can understand what a visualisation is.

About me 2021

 Kai Ora. 

My name is Keira. I am Maori and Cambodian. I am in LS1 at Panmure Bridge School. I enjoy Writing and watching movies.

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 I read 1 chapter of Cat Magic by Holly Webb.

 This story tells you about Lottie who got sent away by her mum to go live with her uncle Jack who owns a pet shop with lots of animals in a small town.

I like Lottie because she was scared, but still went on the train to live with her uncle Jack and cousin.