Night Light | Reading | Reciprocal Reading

For week 1/2 my reading group (Rotoroa) read the book "Night Light". This story explained information on the moon. The book had information like "Why the moon changes shape, Why it has dark circles on it, and more about the moon." We found out that the Moon changes shape every month/day because of the reflection that the sun is facing. The sun reflects it's light onto part of the moon, so whatever part that has the reflection is from the sun. After reading the book and summarising the story, we moved onto the DLO. The DLO was about "Why the moon changes shape, Glossary on words we didn't understand, Labelled Diagram and a explanation written in our own words." I found learning about how the moon makes its shapes really interesting because I thought the moon just wanted to be any shape it wanted.

Tsunami Information, Facts, instructions

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This week for reading we worked collaboratively to find information about Tsunami's. In my group was Miiana, Sandra, Matthew and Nevaeh. First we started off with writing down the things we already knew about Tsunami's, Questions that we wanted to know about Tsunami's and things we learnt about tsunami's. Then we made a D.L.O about basic information on Tsunami's. The most interesting thing I found out about Tsunami's was that it is a Japanese word for "Harbour Wave".

Reading | Tsunami's | Know, What, learn

This week for reading our task was to read another text about a topic. We were told to write K, W and L on the top of each paper that was laid in front of us. K stands for Know, W stands for What and L stands for learn. Under K, we wrote down the things we already knew about the topic. Under W, we wrote the questions we wanted to get an answer to. Last was L, Under L we wrote the things that we learnt about the topic. This week our topic was Tsunami's. We wrote know about 4 pieces of information that we had already known. Then our teacher read out a text that had a mix of facts and information about tsunami's. We also had another piece of paper that was for words that we wanted to find out the meaning to. In the first text that was read to us, we didn't understand about 3 words. We were then read another text that had way more words that we didn't understand. We found about 4 or 5 words that were clueless to us. Last our teacher read facts that were provided on the reading page. We were then sent to work in workspace 3 to write down more information about tsunami's. We looked up a tsunami that had happen in japan in 2011. Sandra and I were the ones who did the most work. The 2 boys were more interested on their own thing. At the end of the whole session we had 7 pages full of what we Know, Wanted to find out about and what we learnt. This weeks reading was very fun and interesting to do.