LITERACY

For the rest of term one and the rest of the year we are going to trial a new liteacy board. It means you can take responsibility and choose what you do during our literacy time. The board has a number of activities that you can be doing during this time. It is important to remember that your reading and writing activities need to be done each day and they become a priority. You will be get your own literacy board which you personalise for yourself. Each week you will save a new litteracy assignment board into your personal folder and update what you will do each day. You will colour in a box related to the activity you did. At the end of the week we can compare everybodies literacy boards to see what people are focusing on. I hope you enjoy this and find it worth while. GOOD LUCK!

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 * Have you ever wondered why a word is what it is? Or why do we have words? Over the next few weeks we are going to investigate the english language and discuss how we can become expert writers and readers.**

=**We are learning to make connections between what we know and what we are reading**.=

We are going to use the reading comprehension strategy called "Visualising"

When we write we can use words to describe things. These words can make pictures or movies in our minds. This can help us to understand what you are reading and activiate your prior knowledge.

There is a story called "Monsters in the basement" Before you read the story think about what sort of movies or pictures you see when you read that title? Even draw a picture about it or use use a. There are some activities on this web site []related to visualising and all the other reading comprehension strategies. Follow the instructions MR T gave in class on how to get a user name and then have a go at the visualising part. Don't forget to watch the video first. Have fun.

If you are into writing try this little program. Just click run when it comes up and it should go.

What is a sentence? Can you remember what we have been learning? Here are some games to jog your memory. []