Personal Reading
Answer the following questions in your notes:
(Year 9 use pages under English Subject Divider)
Library 1
(Year 9 use pages under English Subject Divider)
Library 1
- Why did you choose that book?
- What do you think/ know it will be about?
- How?
- Read chapter one and then find a buddy. Swap books and predict what the books are about without opening the book. Where they right/ wrong? Close/ far?
- Thinking back to your book, is it similar to any books you have read before? Explain similarities/ differences
Library 2 - predictions - inferring - activating prior knowledge - making connections - summarising. Thinking critically about both how and what we read.
Pair up with a buddy you haven't spoken to much yet and discuss;
1. what is your book about?
2. how did you find it?
3. what attracted you to it?
4.what is interesting/ confusing/ exciting/ boring/ weird about it?
5. how will it end? What evidence do you have to support this?
Then write up your conversation in your Library Period notes.
Library 3 - Reading out loud
1. Think of and write down all the real life situations where you will read out loud.
2. What are all the skills needed to read out loud successfully?
3. How many of these are you able to do?
4. What are areas you need to work on?
5. Read about 1/2 page out loud to your buddy. Under the date, write a brief account of how you did.
Library 4 - More Predictions (Copy and paste into your Library notes)
1. Find a non-fiction text with a buddy
2. Without opening it, list all the info that you can find out using the tools (making predictions - inferring - activating prior knowledge - making connections - summarising)
3. Open and flick/ skim through
Pair up with a buddy you haven't spoken to much yet and discuss;
1. what is your book about?
2. how did you find it?
3. what attracted you to it?
4.what is interesting/ confusing/ exciting/ boring/ weird about it?
5. how will it end? What evidence do you have to support this?
Then write up your conversation in your Library Period notes.
Library 3 - Reading out loud
1. Think of and write down all the real life situations where you will read out loud.
2. What are all the skills needed to read out loud successfully?
3. How many of these are you able to do?
4. What are areas you need to work on?
5. Read about 1/2 page out loud to your buddy. Under the date, write a brief account of how you did.
Library 4 - More Predictions (Copy and paste into your Library notes)
1. Find a non-fiction text with a buddy
2. Without opening it, list all the info that you can find out using the tools (making predictions - inferring - activating prior knowledge - making connections - summarising)
3. Open and flick/ skim through
- Were your assumptions right? Wrong? Close?
- Was there anything unexpected?
- Did your prediction include a surface or deeper guess of the content?
- Was this outcome similar or different to your look at fiction text? Why?
- What are the positives and negatives of these assumptions?