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Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 September 2016

Hey, three birds were flying past me!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English       grammar.  
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that relating verbs are verbs that are used to identify objects, such as the characters of people, animals and places.


Thursday, 8 September 2016

'Raise' is a synonym for 'lift'!


Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.  

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that synonyms are words that have the same meaning but they have different a spelling.

Monday, 5 September 2016

Did you know that 'new' is a homonym?

Homonyms are words that have the same sounds, same spelling but they have different meanings. 
                                                                           Examples:
                                                                             Duck
                                                         A type of swimming and flying animal.
                                                         A type of animal that have web feet.
                                                                     Another examples
                                                                            Bat
                                                        A type of club that is in cricket or baseball.
                                                        A nocturnal flying mammal.
 Learning intention: We are learning to develop understanding of the English grammar.  
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that homonyms are words that have the same sounds, same spelling but have different meanings.
                      
                                                     

Thursday, 25 August 2016

Did you know that 'come' is the antonym for 'go'?


Learning intention: We are learning to develop understanding of the English grammar.  
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that antonyms are words that have the opposite meaning to another word.

Sunday, 21 August 2016

Yay! The little mouse is lucky to be small because he get to explore around the world!

                                      Learning Intention: We are learning to make connections about the text that we read.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write a summary of the story: a little mouse that was...  and write five critical thinking questions about the story.

Sunday, 24 July 2016

'Bouncing' is an action verb for a kangaroo!

                                                              Learning intention: We are learning to understand action verbs.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that action verb is something that a person, animal or object can do.

Saturday, 23 July 2016

Did you know that have' is a verb?


Learning intention: We are learning to understand verb types.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that a verb is a part of a sentence that describes a process or what is happening.

Friday, 1 July 2016

Quack, quack, quack!

                                            Learning intention: We are learning to understand onomatopoeia.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that onomatopoeia is a word spoken from an animal or the sound that an object makes.

Sunday, 19 June 2016

Help! Help! The house is on fire!

                                             Learning Intention: We are learning to develop understanding of the text that we read.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write the summary of the story 'House fire'.

Friday, 17 June 2016

Hmm! Did you know that penguins are flightless birds?

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our critical thinking skills using Thinkers
Keys.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use the Questions Key to write 4 questions that gives the answer 'penguin'.

Friday, 10 June 2016

Hmm! Let's find out about spiders!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop critical thinking skills using Thinkers Keys.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use the alphabet key to find words that are related to spiders.