Reading

The following are expected milestones after each year at school. These milestones form part of the NZ National Standards for reading

After 1 Year At School (Red, Blue and Green Books)

· Know and use individual sounds and known parts of words to help read tricky words

· Become more independent at reading—checking on yourself—making sure what you read looks and sounds right

· Read with expression

· Understand the meaning of punctuation

· Retell main points of a story

· Interpret simple diagrams, speech bubbles

· Make sense of what you read

· Demonstrate awareness of active reading strategies—Making Connections, Prediction and Re Prediction, Visualisation, Asking and Answering Questions, Inference, Retelling , Summarising

After 2 Years At School (Orange and Turquoise Books)

· Use chunks of known words to help read tricky words

· Know and use some prefixes and suffixes

· Be a confident and independent reader—checking on self, re running, making sure what you read looks and sounds right

· Read with expression

· Find meaning of unknown words by using information from photos, captions or re reading

· Select appropriate books and read independently for 15 minutes

· Explain plot, characters, themes and retell main points

· Actively demonstrate reading  strategies— Making Connections, Prediction and Re Prediction, Visualisation, Asking and Answering Questions, Inference, Retelling , Summarising

After 3 Years At School (Purple and Gold)

· Read with good expression, using punctuation and voice for affect

· Independent use of reading strategies to read for accuracy and ensure you understand what you are reading. Re-reading if necessary when meaning is lost

· Identify and keep track of ideas and information when reading longer sections of text

· Locate evidence in the text—beginning to skim and scan

· Use knowledge of words and sayings to explain word meanings and sayings used in texts, offer synonyms and want to understand

· Use graphs, text boxes, illustrations to access information

· Know common prefixes and suffixes and what they mean

· Apply reading strategies with longer more complex texts

· Retell main points of a story

· Interpret simple diagrams, speech bubbles

· Make sense of what you read

· Demonstrate awareness of active reading strategies—Making Connections, Prediction and  re prediction, visualisation, Asking and answering questions, inference, retelling and summarising)

Week 7 Term 3

We created a 'wordle' with all our topic nouns we have learnt during inquiry work. We used it as our poem for the week.

Here are some of our published wordles.